9 IIMs under scrutiny after alleged violation of PhD admission reservation policy

RTI data acquired by the APPSC stated that the maximum number of students that are taking admission to IIMs are from the general category. Out of 110 seats reserved for SC, IIMs have admitted only 40, and have denied admission to 70.

Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC), a students' body at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has claimed that nine Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have violated the reservation criteria for PhD admissions. These IIMs have denied admission to nearly 188 Dalit Bahujan Adivasi students according to the data accumulated over the past five years through RTI filed by APPSC. The nine IIMs that are under question are IIM Rohtak, Lucknow, Raipur, Kozhikode, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kashipur, Indore and Shillong.

Through its official Twitter handle, the students collective stated that the proportion of Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), and Other Backward Caste (OBC) categories students in nine different IIMs

"RTI data obtained from 9 IIMs show that they have been violating the reservation norms in PhD admissions. 188 dalit bahujan adivasi students were denied their rightful seats in the last 5 years," it tweeted.

Check out the tweet below:

Official PhD Admission Reservation Policy

As per the official admission reservation policy, around 15 per cent of the seats must be reserved for SC candidates, while 27 per cent for OBC candidates and 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribe (ST) belonging to the "Non-Creamy Layer" (NCL-OBC), up to 5 per cent for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and 10 per cent for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates.

RTI Data Reveals Reality

However, the RTI data acquired by the APPSC stated that the maximum number of students that are taking admission to IIMs are from the general category. Out of 110 seats reserved for SC, IIMs have admitted only 40, and have denied admission to 70. Out of 55 seats reserved in the ST category, only 13 were admitted, and 42 were denied.

The data further states that in the OBC category, the b-schools have admitted only 123 students were admitted out of a total of 199, and 76 were denied admission.

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