New Delhi: To boost enrollment of girl students in IITs, the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (HRD) has introduced a four-point formula to enhance the ratio from the current eight percent to 20 percent by 2021.
Reportedly held on April 28, the 51st IIT Council meeting at IIT-Bombay planned on a sub-committee report and decided to raise female enrolment in BTech programs of IITs. Following which, the MHRD issued a slew of directives.
The initiative includes getting IITs to identify meritorious girls from class VIII in their respective catchment areas and coaching and counselling them along with their parents.
“The idea is to identify some of the more promising students and then get them hooked on to the idea of studying in…
