New Delhi: Concerned over last year’s statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) entrance test JEE (Advanced) showing only 38% of female candidates eligible for IITs actually accepting a seat, a help desk cum web portal, students.iitmandi.ac.in/other_IITs.php, has been launched to attract more women to the elite institutes.
Female candidates and their parents will now have easy access to information on life and academics in the IITs.They will be talking to volunteers through phone, email and special facebook pages to make an informed choice about admissions.
JEE (Advanced) data shows that women opt for limited choices during counselling and target engineering institutes close to their home towns because of safety fears. To…
