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.
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 an IIT,” the Times of India quoted a faculty member as saying. “We want to catch these girls young,” he added.
The ministry sent letters to the IITs across the nation suggesting them details about how to inspire young females to take up…
