In 2014, around 11 had opted for deferred placements. The policy has seen a considerable rise from one in 2013 and none in the first year of introduction.
The initiative has been conceptualised by Kanojia, who was an intervention programme officer of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), which had focused on helping 26/11 survivors.
Among the older IITs, Bombay had a vacancy of 38.66 per cent, Kharagpur of 42.42 per cent, Roorkee of 41.88 per cent, Delhi of 33.11 per cent, Guwahati of 26.50 per cent and IIT-BHU of 53.39 per cent.
According to experts, while radio galaxies with size less than a million light years are common, giant radio galaxies are rare at large cosmic distances.
Life stories of 42 girls or women and 15 boys or men, who were married before the age of 18 years and are presently in the age group 15-29 years, form the core of the data.
While the current devices cost Rs 10,000 and above, the affordable version is priced at Rs 4,000, and mass production will further bring the costs down.
The QS rankings comprise six indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio and international student ratio.
Rao added that if the industry were to fund such a university, he would be “delighted to work full time to build such an institution without any remuneration”.