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GS-I : Social issues Discrimination

24 February, 2021
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Data on Higher education in marginalised communities.

Data on Higher education in marginalised communities.

RTI data showed that SC students constituted only 7.6% and STs were just 1.2%.
The reservation policy requires that 15% of seats be allocated to SCs and 7.5% to STs.
The Acceptance Rate (refers to the number of students admitted for every 100 applicants) is very low . While General Category (GC) students, which in the case of the IITs predominantly refers to those from privileged, communities, had an acceptance rate of 4.4%, it was 2.9% for SCs and 2.7% for STs.
Only 167 of the 5,855 SC applicants and 27 of the 991 ST applicants were selected.
29.8% of the seats went to OBC candidates against the 27% of minimum allocation to be done as per reservation norms. The remaining 61.6% seats went to the GC category.
Of the 3874 admissions, 64.4% went to GCs, 27.9% to OBCs, and only 6.4% to SCs and 1.3% to STs.

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GS-I : Social issues Discrimination

19 March, 2021
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Data on Higher Education in Marginalised Communities

Pallid state of reservation in some of India’s elite institutions.

Some of the striking data show 62% unfilled vacancies for SC in the IIMs and 90% for OBC in the IISc, while vacant positions are on average about 38% to 52%, taking Central Universities, IISERs, IIT (non-faculty), IGNOU, and Sanskrit Central Universities into account.
The data confirm that the trend seen earlier in the IIT system extends to many more institutions, highlighting a serious mismatch between the government’s equity-building goals and actual recruitment outcomes

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