WHY STATEWISE REPRESENTATION IN IITS, NITS IS ESSENTIAL FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND EDUCATION EQUITY

Premier engineering colleges in India should implement statewise representation in admissions to promote national integration and unity.

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The premier engineering colleges of India draw largely from an all-India pool of students, irrespective of States. Statewise representation is not a factor although this is the fundamental structure of the Indian Union. But statewise representation needs to be implemented in admissions to IITs and NITs so as to sync with the general structure of the Indian Union that the Constitution held to be key to promoting national integration and unity. These will address regional imbalances too.

In the past, there were 17 RECs (Regional Engg Colleges). Many of the bigger States had their own REC and the smaller ones were grouped and allotted one REC.

Fifty percent of the seats in each REC was for students from the State where the REC was located. The remaining half of the seats in that REC was filled by students from other States.