The IIT entrance test has now become an estimated $2 billion (Rs8,380 crore today) industry. Development Economics | Andy Mukherjee India’s top engineering schools have shed their cloak of secrecy and become more transparent about their admission criteria. Last week, the Indian Institutes of Technology, or IITs, disclosed on their website the results of the gruelling test they administer to 17-year-olds to select the country’s future managerial, scientific and entrepreneurial elite. The disclosures, which were being demanded by people under the three-year-old Right to Information Act, are a step in the right direction. The statistics should be of immense use to planners and politicians for they do reveal that India’s caste-based affirmative-action programme in higher education isn’t levelling the playing field. The economics...
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