IIT Bombay stopped collecting caste category information for placements from year 2024
This was revealed in IIT Bombay's response to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) where a complaint of caste discrimination was filed in November alleging that IIT Bombay mandatorily asked students participating in placements to fill in their caste category.
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Taking cognisance of the complaint, the NCSC, as per the procedure; had asked the IIT to submit an action taken report. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay’s Placement Office used to collect caste category information of students participating in the placements in order to provide it to Public Sector Unit (PSUs) companies coming on campus for recruitment. tThe practice, however, ended in 2024 according to the premier institution.
This was revealed in IIT Bombay’s response to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) where a complaint of caste discrimination was filed in November alleging that IIT Bombay mandatorily asked students participating in placements to fill in their caste category.
The complaint was filed by Dheeraj Singh, Founder of Global IIT alumni Support Group which has been helping SC/ST students in the placement process. In his complaint Singh had alleged that the placement Office at IIT Bombay was directly involved in carrying out discriminatory practices against students belonging to SC backgrounds who were participating in the campus placement; by making it mandatory to fill their caste-category and category rank in JEE exams.
Taking cognisance of the complaint, the NCSC, as per the procedure; had asked the IIT to submit an action taken report. IIT Bombay’s response to the NCSC states, “In the past, IIT Bombay Placement office used to collect category information of the students to give it to PSUs when they ask for the category information. The placement office stopped collecting this information from the year 2024 onwards. When PSUs recruit students, their personnel verify the birth category documents for positions reserved for certain birth categories. The placement office is not involved in collecting this data.”
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