No seats vacant at IITs this year: HRD Ministry

New Delhi, August 3 

In a first, no seats have been vacant this year at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), according to HRD Ministry officials.

“There have been a total of 13,604 undergraduate admissions to IITs this year with nil vacant seats. This is the first time ever that no seats have been vacant in all IITs… it has been achieved by proactive cooperation of all IITs,” HRD Higher Education Secretary R Subrahmanyam said.

Last year, 118 seats in all 23 IITs were vacant. Then HRD minister Prakash Javadekar had attributed the vacant seats to students not showing interest in certain disciplines. — PTI

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