The cut-off for OBC students will be 10% less than the general category and the OBC students will have to provide parents income proof at the time of counselling.
NEW DELHI: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have decided to reserve nine per cent seats for candidates from the other backward classes (OBCs) for the coming academic session (2008-09), excluding the creamy layer.
The cut-off for OBC students will be 10% less than the general category and the OBC students will have to provide parents income proof at the time of counselling.
In a meeting of the Joint Admission Board, where officials from ministry of human resource development (HRD) were also present, IIT directors decided to admit 880 OBC students across all IITs, Indian School of Mining (Dhanbad), and Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) this year through the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) at the undergraduate level.
Opting to implement quotas in a phased manner, the IITs will continue reserving nine per cent seats till they achieve the 27% target by 2010. Accordingly, the overall expansion this year will be 13%, including the increase in general category seats. The three new IITs — Patna, Hyderabad and Rajasthan — will, however, provide 27% OBC quota in one go. These IITs will admit 120 students, including SC/ST and OBC, to start with.
IIT-Delhi director Surendra Prasad said till the government issued some other criteria to define the creamy layer, the IITs would follow the existing policy used for reservation in jobs. Thus, the applicants would have to declare their OBC and creamy layer status in the entrance exam form. However, the actual screening would take place at the time of counselling.
The seats that remain unfilled would not be passed on to the general category and the OBC students on the top of the main merit list would have the option to either come through quota or directly. “However, they can get a better branch if they opt for OBC category,” said Prasad.
Cut-off marks for the OBC students had been fixed in between that of the general category and SC/ST (40% less), the IIT directors said, adding quality would not be compromised. “The challenge is to maintain standards, faculty, infrastructure and ambience of learning,” said IIT-Guwahati director Gautam Barua. He, however, conceded that the IITs would need to double their faculty strength by 2010 to maintain the teaching quality.
The IITs have asked the HRD ministry to provide extra funds for infrastructure like classrooms, labs, etc. Barua clarified that results or admissions will not be delayed.
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