Login With Google
Ratio of Marginalised communities in research
Why is it in news?
- The Scheduled Caste(SC) and Scheduled Tribe(ST) applicants are half as likely to get selected for a Ph.D. programme at leading IITs in the country.
- Data is collated from a series of RTI applications.
Details:
- The acceptance rate is skewed against students from the SC, ST, and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities.
- The acceptance rate refers to the number of students selected for every 100 students who applied.
- The rate stood at 4% for students from historically privileged castes (General Category). It falls to 2.7% for OBC students and further down to just 2.16% for SCs and 2.2% for STs.
- The total admissions made by all IITs from 2015 to 2019, only 2.1% went to STs and 9.1% to SCs.
- The government’s reservation policy mandates allocation of 7.5% seats for students from the STs and 15% from SCs.
- About 23.2% seats went to applicants from the OBCs against the 27% mandated by reservation. Remaining 65.6%, or roughly two-thirds of all the seats, went to GC applicants.