UP govt to register IITs, IIMs, other institutes for scholarship disbursal to students

After a Dalit student from Uttar Pradesh almost lost his IIT seat due to delayed fee payment, the state government plans to register all IITs, IIMs and other premier institutes with its Department of Social Welfare to provide scholarships to students.

The first to be registered would be the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Dhanbad, which was on Monday directed by the Supreme Court to admit the student, Atul Kumar (18), the son of a daily wager from Muzaffarnagar’s Titora village.

On Wednesday, the Uttar Pradesh government had announced that it would bear Kumar’s entire fee through scholarship