IIT Madras Becomes First IIT To Introduce Sports Quota; Allocates 2 Seats in Each UG Course

IIT Madras becomes the inaugural IIT to implement a sports quota for ug admissions.

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Source : IIT Madras

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras becomes the first IIT to implement a sports quota for undergraduate admissions. Unlike several leading universities like Delhi University, the IITs have not had a sports quota system in place until now. The Institute will be introducing the ‘Sports Excellence Admission’ (SEA) from the academic year 2024-2025, under which it will offer two supernumerary seats, of which one will be exclusively for female students, in each of its undergraduate programs for Indian Nationals.

Announcing this program, Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, “This is a very progressive step to ensure holistic education as envisaged in the National Education Policy 2020. This step is to acknowledge achievements in sports by young children and also, give them an opportunity to further understand their respective sports from an engineering and technology perspective. IIT Madras has added many sports-related electives and also has many state-of-the-art facilities.”

Highlighting the need for such an initiative, Prof. V. Kamakoti added, “In addition, we will also be launching a Sports Complex with advanced equipment in the near future. We are extremely happy that the ‘Sports Excellence Admission’ is happening, starting July 2024. We wish that our alumnus will become a world-renowned sportsperson.”

For SEA admission eligibility, candidates need to have achieved a position in the Common Rank List (CRL) or category-wise rank list in the JEE (Advanced). Additionally, they must have earned at least one medal in a national or international-level sports event within the past four years. Moreover, candidates must meet the minimum required marks in their class 12 examinations as per the IIT admission eligibility criteria.

To be eligible for admission through this program, candidates must have secured a position in the Common Rank List (CRL) or category-wise rank list in the JEE (Advanced), and must have won at least one medal in any National/International-level sports competition in the last four years.

A separate ‘Sports Rank List’ (SRL) will be prepared based on the total score obtained by the candidates based on their performance in a specific list of sports. The seat allotment will be done based on this list.