NEW DELHI: The IIT Council has approved government plans to increase student intake to one lakh by 2020. The aim is to increase student intake across IITs at undergraduate, post graduate and research level from the current 72,000 to one lakh in a phased manner.The additional seats will largely be accommodated through a non residential student admission format. Each IIT will be now asked to analyse and assess how many more students it will be able to accommodate every year keeping in mind infrastructure requirements, faculty availability and other related aspects. The IITs will be allowed flexibility in implementing the increased intake to ensure that academic quality is not compromised in any manner and a student teacher ratio of 10:1 is maintained.It is expected that the B Tech seats will increase from the current 10,500 to 14,500. The HRD minister Prakash Javadekar who chaired the 50th IIT Council meeting said that multiple strategies will be employed to push up research, encourage collaborations with foreign institutes and academics and draw foreign students as well so that the IITs are able to dispel the 'perception' that worked against them on global rankings.IITs have also agreed to introduce a primer course on the IIT BHU model for fresh students to ease them into the IIT system, the minister added.

Source: Economic Times August 23, 2016 23:03 UTC