BHUBANESWAR:
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar (
IIT-BBS) has a reason to cheer as the number of girl students taken admission this year has touched 15%. The number of girl students in undergraduate courses was around 9% last year, official sources said.
"This is an all-time record admission in terms of girls in our institute in the last ten year. With an aim to reduce gender-gap and to provide equity of access to female students the institute has included 22 supernumerary seats for girls in different BTech courses, which led to the overall rise in number of girls in the courses," said director of IITBBS, Prof Raja Kumar.
Of the total 354 BTech seats, 55 are girls this year including 19 supernumerary seats while last year of the total 338 seats, 32 were girls, official sources said.
"The ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) has decided to increase the seats for girls in IITs with an aim to increase the percentage of women students to 14 per by 2026. I am quite hopeful that we will achieve it sooner," said Raja Kumar.
Besides, there has been a steep rise in the number of seats got filled up in other courses like MSc, MTech and PhD programmes over the previous years by 7%, 15% and 95%, respectively. Among the undergraduate courses
computer science, electronic and communication,
electrical engineering are the most sought after subjects.
"In IIT Bhubaneswar better ranked students joined this year compared to last year by about 300 ranks. In fact, till two years back the closing ranks for admissions have been falling continuously. Last year, the institute recorded a first time improvement in ranks by a small margin. This time, the improvement is by as many as 300 ranks, despite increased seats and it is it is very significant," said Raja Kumar.
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