Taking a far-reaching step in promoting engineering students from rural regions, Andhra Pradesh has decided to earmark 80 per cent of the seats in the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) for students from government and government-aided schools in rural regions. The state government’s new admission policy, announced on January 24, revealed this.
Students from urban areas will now have to compete hard for the remaining 20 per cent of the seats. And the students from rural areas would challenge them here too, for they are allowed to apply in unreserved seats. Students from other parts of the country as well as NRI students will also have to vie on these seats.
As per the new policy, out of the available 6,000 seats in Idupulapaya, Nuzividu and Basar, 4,800 seats have gone to rural students while 1,200 seats are allotted for state-level and national-level applicants.
The new admission policy has also touched the fee structure. Students admitted from other states will now be required to pay a sum of Rs 1.5 lakh per annum while the NRIs willl have to pay Rs 3 lakh. Pay structure for local rural students is unchanged.
