How many students from West Bengal get into IIT?

Last year, 1,326 students from Bengal qualified for IIT-JEE (A), of whom 287 made the final cut. This year, the figure shot up to 2,129, of whom 301 found a place in the IITs.

Can a Bengali medium student crack IIT JEE?

Anyone can clear IIT, it requires proper study material , determination, complete dedication , ,concepts clarity ,lots and lots of practice and luck. If one prepares real hard and with full devotion one can surely clear IIT ,irrespective of thing that one belongs from Bengal or any other state.

Why are there so few Dalit professors in India’s IITs?

There are, for a start, very few Dalit professors in India’s 23 IITs. The quota system policy was designed in the 1950s as an early form of affirmative action to ensure that higher education institutions retained 15\% of their places for Dalit students; the same proportion of faculty was also expected to come from this background.

How many faculty members at IITs are from reserved categories?

Of the 6,043 faculty members at the 23 IITs, 149 are from the Scheduled Castes and 21 from Scheduled Tribes, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has told the Lok Sabha. This means that 2.8\% of the faculty members come from the reserved categories.

How many SC and St faculty in IITs?

Almost a decade on, you can count the number of SC and ST faculty in the IITs on your fingers. Dalit faculty made up no more than 1.12\% of IIT faculty positions in December 2012, according to this statement made in the Lok Sabha (parliament’s lower house) that year: 0.12\% of IIT faculty were tribals, while OBC faculty were 1.84\%.

Is there a caste bias in IITs?

“Some caste bias does shows up on campus, mostly as upper-caste students expressing their discontent with the reservation system,” Devang Khakhar, director of IIT Bombay, told IndiaSpend. Questions have been raised over the efficacy of the redressal of caste grievances.