IIT list out, but no OBC quota

Mou Chakraborty,
Kolkata, May 30, 2007
THE IIT-JEE results were declared on Wednesday. However, there was no OBC quota list.
Beginning this year and till 2009, IIT-Kharagpur was to implement 9 per cent OBC quota each year taking the total number of reserved seats for OBC to 27 per cent, as prescribed by the central government. “We will publish the OBC quota list for this session if the government asks us to do so,” said director of IIT Kharagpur Prof SK Dube.
Under the OBC quota policy, IIT-KGP was to add 334 seats this year. But if the OBC quota it not implemented this year then IIT-KGP would have 845 seats, as it was last year. But even if OBC quota list is not published this year, IIT-KGP plans to begin upgrading its infrastructure so that it can accommodate 27 per cent OBC students in the near future. For the purpose, the institute had asked for Rs 680 crore from the HRD ministry.
As for this year’s IIT-JEE results, the good news from Bengal is that WB-JEE topper Subhasish Das from Bolpur Nichupati Nirad Barani High School has bagged the all India 4th rank and has topped in the IIT-KGP region.
Subhasish, who plans to study aeronautical engineering at IIT-Kharagpur or IIT Mumbai, said, “This year the WB-JEE had upgraded its syllabus to IIT-JEE standards. So there was no need to prepare separately. This helped me to make it among the toppers in both IIT-JEE and WB-JEE”.
But Dube credits Subhasish’s success to the reform IITs have brought about in their examination process. “We restructured the syllabus and exam pattern in a manner that students from the districts got a better chance to get in. It has made school education more relevant and coaching centres redundant.”
This year over 2.43 lakh candidates took the exam. The merit list has 7,200 students to fill up 5537 seats at the seven IITs. The merit list has 537 girls. Anamika Sharma from IIT Mumbai zone has topped among girls with an all-India rank of 55. Though 10 per cent more girls have made it to the merit list this time, only 48 girls (2.24 per cent) have been successful from the IIT-KGP region.
Counseling will start from June 18 and will continue till June 22. The preparatory course and their counseling will be held on July 6 and classes at IIT-Kharagpur will start from July 23.
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ü Total number of students appeared 2, 43, 029
ü Total number of students qualified 7200
ü Total number of students appeared from IIT-Kharagpur region 32,693
ü Total Number of students qualified from IIT-Kharagpur region 733
ü Total number of girls appeared 54,025
ü Total number of girls qualified 537
ü Total number of girls appeared from IIT Kharagpur region 6990
ü Total number of girls qualified from IIT Kharagpur region 48
ü Total number of seats in 7 IITs 5537
ü Total number of seats at IIT Kharagpur 845
ü Counseling for admission - from June 18 to June 22.
ü The preparatory course and their counseling will be held on July 6
ü Classes at IIT Kharagpur begin on July 23.

ü IIT’s published the result minus OBC category
ü If OBC category were included IIT Kharagpur would have offered 125 extra seats all reserved under OBC quota.
ü The IIT’s may publish another list comprising of OBC quota students if it gets nod from the MHRD before the beginning of the session.

IIT-Kharagpur region includes – West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Part of Bihar, Sikkim, Agartala and Andaman & Nicobar Island.