The literacy and income levels of parents do not necessarily impede their children from aiming for and gaining admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), according to an inference drawn by IIT Kanpur from an analysis of this year’s entrance process.
Close to 800 students out of 31,988 who qualified for the Advanced test under the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), passing which is a prerequisite for admission to the 23 IITs and other centrally funded engineering schools, reported that their parents are illiterate.
The analysis also shows that the annual parental annual income of 8,531 students out of 31,988 who qualified for JEE Advanced was up to ₹1 lakh per year.
Read more of this interesting study in a report by Neelam Pandey published in Hindustan Times....
