IITs Disregard Fee Waiver to SCs, STs
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 13 October 2024 | The Telegraph
Atul Kumar was lucky: the Supreme Court helped him pursue his IIT dream after he was denied admission for his failure to pay the "seat allocation fee" because of a last-minute software glitch.
But the Dalit student from Titora village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, would not have had to approach the apex court had the IITs implemented an eight-year-old government order that granted a blanket fee waiver to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students…