New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS): For the time, all seats of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology have been filled, the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry has said.
HRD Secretary R. Subrahmanyam said all the 13,604 seats of the undergraduate courses in all the IITs have been filled with proactive cooperation of all IITs and coordination by IIT Roorkee.
"13,604 undergraduate admissions in IITs this year with NIL vacant seats -- a great step for us in MHRD achieved with proactive cooperation of all IITs and coordination by IIT Roorkee," tweeted the HRD Secretary.
Officials said the admission to the seats in 23 IITs is in excess as per the data released by the HRD ministry. This means that roughly 620 seats earmarked for the weaker sections have also been filled. This is the first year that the EWS quota has been introduced.
Last year, 118 seats in the IITs had found no takers. There were 110 vacant seats in 2017, 96 in 2016, 32 in 2015, three in 2014 and 149 seats in 2013.
The official said the ministry had constituted a committee to recommend suitable measures to fill the vacant seats. The official added that the committee was constituted to minimise vacancies in Centrally-funded technical institutions including IITs and NITs.
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Sun, Aug 04 2019No seat vacant in IITs for the first time because HRD ministry itself occupied by the 'Fake degree' in the newly elected cabinet of Modi 2.0.
Ramesh Pokhriyal was sworn in as the HRD minister in the second Modi government and soon a news report shed light on his two doctorate degrees that were received from a university in Sri Lanka.
According to a news report in the 90s, the Open International University (OIU) of Colombo conferred two doctorates to him for his contribution in literature and in the field of science. However, according to the report, OIU is neither registered as a foreign university nor as a domestic university in Sri Lanka, the university grants commission of Sri Lanka confirmed.
India’s New Education Minister has two fake degrees from a Fake University in Sri Lanka! Over and above, he has two Dates of Birth.
Pokhriyal was the second education minister with allegedly fake degrees after Smriti Irani served as the HRD minister from 2014 to 2016. Irani’s official applications show conflicting information about her educational qualifications and she claims to have a degree from Yale University.
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