Reserve seats in IITs, IIScs for govt school students: MDMK

Coimbatore: City-based educationist and youth wing secretary of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) V Easwaran has launched a signature campaign urging the central government to take steps to reserve seats for government school students in central government institutions like IIT, IISc and AIIMS.
“Students who passed out of such institutions have better job prospects. They get leadership positions in multinational companies. But government school students from rural areas don’t make it to the institutions,” Easwaran said.
Easwaran said that IIT Madras refused to reveal the number of government school students who joined the institution in the last one decade. “An RTI inquiry revealed that they don’t preserve such details,” he said. “The education department should conduct a survey to ascertain how many students from government schools join these institutions.” TNN