‘Plans afoot to increase seats in IITs, IIMs and central universities’

VARANASI: Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said the intake of students would be increased at the IITs, IIMs and central universities. “We want to increase the number of seats at IIMs, IITs and central universities. The institutions are preparing plans to increase the intake of students. The issue has been discussed in detail with the vice-chancellors,” he said. In the meeting, the VCs also agreed to increase the number of seats.

Javadekar said all universities had been asked to submit their individual plans by next month to ensure more students get admissions. “We are seriously working on the plan,” he said.

‘FORMULATING POLICY TO ENSURE NO REPEAT’

VARANASI: Javadekar also said the Centre was formulating a concrete policy to prevent another Rohith Vemula-like incident in the future. When asked on Thursday about the findings of the panel formed to look into the suicide of the University of Hyderabad scholar, Javadekar said he could not comment on

the report as he had not received it yet.