The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) has decided to increase its seats by 12.5 percent this year and by the same percentage in the following year in order to implement the EWS quota for the Upper caste group of the society.
The HRD ministry has already asked all the universities and institutes of the nation to implement the new EWS quota from the new academic session and finalize its implementation plan by the March 31.
“We will increase seats by 12.5 per cent this year and the remaining the next year. We are supposed to submit our financial requirements regarding this to the government, which we are in the process of doing. The communication has to go to the central JEE coordinating office too, as they need to know the exact number of seats (which will increase),” IIT-D Director V Ramgopal Rao said.
He said that funds will be required only to create additional hostel space for the students and classroom space is not an issue.
“We roughly have 10,000 students and need to take in 2,500 more students. Our large hostels have a capacity for about 800 students. So we require at least three more hostels. But we don’t have space for new hostels, so we will need to demolish our 50-year-old hostels, which have about 300 seats and make larger hostels,” said Rao.