#iits — Public Fediverse posts
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High number of student suicides across IITs in India. Learn more about the alarming trend and potential causes. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/iit-student-suicides-mental-health-guidelines-impact-hfki0ud5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #studentsuicides #IITs #mentalhealth #education #India
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IIT Bombay Punishes Students For Role in Play About Ramayana: Reports
Graduating students were reportedly fined higher penalties while junior students were barred from using the institute's hostel facilities.
#maharashtra #IITBombay #communalism #ramayana #IITs #education #hindutva #BJPStates #india
https://thewire.in/education/iit-bombay-punishes-students-ramayana-play
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IIT Bombay placements: 36% students from latest batch fail to get placed
This year witnessed a rise in the number of students at IIT Bombay without placements, reaching 35.8%, an increase of 2.8 percentage points compared to the previous session.
#IITBombay #IITs #IITPlacements #jobs #labour #unemployment #economy #india
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IITs Defy Quota, Deny Seats to SC, ST & OBC at Faculty & PhD Level: RTI Data
Let’s take a look at what the data from the RTI response indicates about SC/ST/OBC representation across IITs.
#IITs #CasteDiscrimination #reservations #SCST #dalits #adivasis #education #casteism #caste #india
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How a Calendar Exposed the Falling Standards of an IIT
Relying on a baffling mixture of symbols and images, the 2024 calendar claiming to be published by IIT-Kharagpur wrongly propagates that Vedic Aryans were indigenous to the Indus Valley region, and supports 'out-of-India' migration against all evidence. C.P. Rajendran writes.
#WestBengal #IITKharagpur #IITs #AryanMigration #IndusValleyCivilisation #pseudohistory #hindutva #education #india
https://thewire.in/education/how-a-calendar-exposes-the-falling-professional-standards-of-an-iit
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Over 13,000 SC, ST, OBC students dropped out of central varsities, IITs, IIMs in 5 years: Minister
The government has taken various steps like fee reduction, establishment of more institutes, scholarship, priority access to national level scholarships to aid the students with poor financial backgrounds to pursue their education.
#education #SCs #STs #OBCs #dalits #IITs #IIMs #IndianUniversities #caste #poverty #india
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What BharOS, India’s ‘homegrown’ answer to Android, says about our credulity
BharOS, an ‘indigenous Atmanirbhar’ mobile operating system, was found to have been simply cloned from a popular open source OS. Claims over such technology must be verified before being touted as ‘secure’ simply because they’re made in India.
#BharOS #GrapheneOS #IITMadras #IITs #IITM #IITMPravartak #JandkOperations #GitHub #DST #OpenSource #privacy #security #india
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Sustaining the myth of merit
How technical knowledge became the preserve of a ‘meritorious’ upper-caste elite: an interview with Ajantha Subramanian, author of 'The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India'. (From October 2020)
caste #merit #CasteDiscrimination #UpperCastes #brahminism #brahmins #education #reservations #IITs #india #books #bookstodon #AjanthaSubramanian
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59% General Category students agree with or are neutral to casteist remarks: 2019-20 IIT-Delhi survey
One of the disturbing findings of the survey shows that one in two “general category” respondents admitted to making casteist comments intentionally or unintentionally. Of them, nearly 15% admitted to having intentionally passed casteist comments.
#IITDelhi #casteism #HateSpeech #CasteDiscrimination #IITs #caste #dalits #adivasis #education #reservations #vegetarianism #brahminism #india
https://thewire.in/rights/iit-delhi-survey-glimpse-hostility-caste-discrimination
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After Bombay, ‘Pure Veg’ section and mess in IIT-Hyderabad
A survey, prompted by the Director and some students of IIT Hyderabad, was sent to students in July this year to see if there were enough takers for a vegetarian-only space. Soon after, a section was set up in the new mess of the institute.
#telangana #hyderabad #IITHyderabad #vegetarianism #caste #casteism #brahminism #CastePride #IITBombay #IITs #india
https://www.thenewsminute.com/telangana/after-bombay-pure-veg-section-and-mess-in-iit-hyderabad
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Months after controversy, IIT-Bombay sets aside space for those eating vegetarian food
The institute’s mess council has declared that six tables at a common canteen for hostels 12, 13, and 14 will kept aside for such students.
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BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri calls BSP’s Danish Ali ‘terrorist’, uses communal slurs in Lok Sabha
BJP MPs and former ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsh Vardhan were laughing while Bidhuri continued with his tirade.
#parliament #LokSabha #KunwarDanishAli #BSP #RameshBidhuri ##RaviShankarPrasad #HarsgVardhan #RajnathSingh #BJP #islamophobia #hindutva #UnionGovt #IITMandi #IITs #LaxmidharBehera #india
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‘Devoted teacher, ISKCON disciple’ — IIT Mandi head in news for linking meat-eating to landslides
Colleagues of Laxmidhar Behera, in news for controversial remarks, admit he was always orthodox in beliefs. He relates every scientific conversation to spirituality, allege students.
#HimachalPradesh #mandi #LaxmidharBehera #IITMandi #IITs #IITKanpur #pseudoscience #vegetarianism #brahminism #ISKCON #hindutva #BJPStates #india
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IIT-Delhi withdraws caste discrimination survey hours after circulation
Several students said that the survey had insensitive and irrelevant questions. One question asked respondents to rate how often they witnessed a particular type of caste discrimination. It offered “never” as one of the choices and “so common that I don’t even bother” as another.
#delhi #IITDelhi #IITs #CasteDiscrimination #reservations #IITSuicides #dalits #india
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‘Landslides, cloudbursts in Himachal because people eat meat': IIT Mandi director
Director of the IIT Mandi, Laxmidhar Behera was slammed for his speech on social media after it went viral.
#HimachalPradesh #mandi #IITMandi #IITs #LaxmidharBehera #vegetarianism #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateChange #construction #india
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#India #HigherEd #Universities #IITs: "IIT Bombay, in Mumbai, is one of India’s most prestigious higher education institutes. It’s one of the five original IIT engineering schools established in the 1950s and ’60s as the Indian government’s attempt to emulate the success of the United States’ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Major expansions since 2008 have grown the system to 23 schools in total.
The IITs are now among the world’s top schools. Many young Indians apply for the entrance exams every year. Very few get in. In 2022, the IITs accepted just 1.83% of applicants, a rate more selective than that of U.S. Ivy League universities. The struggle to get into an IIT is so dramatic, Netflix has a multi-season scripted show, Kota Factory, about the country’s many prep schools that have sprung up to help coach applicants to pass the entrance exams.
Becoming an IIT one-percenter is often a ticket to tech success. Many big names in India’s startup scene are IIT alums. Of the country’s 108 unicorns, 68 were founded by at least one IIT graduate, according to data from analytics firm Tracxn.
The schools’ influence expands abroad too. Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are run by “IITians.” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during a 2016 speech that going to IIT Kharagpur “changed the course of my life.” In 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives honored the graduates of IITs for their contribution to American society.
The IITs’ superpower is their tightly knit network of alums. Graduating from an IIT puts you in a special club."
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Row over ‘separate place’ for vegetarian students at IIT Bombay hostel mess
It also added that stringent action will be taken in case such an instance is repeated.
#maharashtra #mumbai #IITBombay #IITs #vegetarianism #brahminism #education #students #india
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Interview: The Indian classroom is a site of routine humiliation for Dalit students
Little is done in educational institutes to address systemic issues of casteism and foster sensitivity, says Yashpal Jogdand, a professor at IIT-Delhi.
#dalits #dalit #IITDelhi #casteism #caste #education #DarshanSolanki #RohithVemula #IITs #IITBombay #reservations #SocialJustice #HumanRights #discrimination #MentalHealth #YashpalJogdand #india
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Public Policy circa 2021
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RT @ahmedabadmirror
#Gujarat government will start #coaching #centres for entrance exams to #IITs, #IIMs and #medical #courses on lines of #Kota in #Rajasthan
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#Feehikes, like the ones announced by #JNU and the #IITs, will deny people equality of opportunity, with education remaining an option only for those who can afford it.