Over 13,000 SC, ST, OBC Students Dropped Out of Central Universities, IITs, IIMs Since 2018
5 December 2023 | The Wire
New Delhi: About 13,626 students from the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) communities have dropped out of central universities, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the last five years, minister of state for education Subhas Sarkar said.
Sarkar was answering a question on whether the government has carried out any studies to understand the reason behind such high dropout rates in these institutions.