IIT placements drop: 10% decline in over half of institutes since 2021-22

House panel says 'unusual decline'; among older IITs, sharp fall in Delhi

- ABHINAYA HARIGOVIND

In more than half of the country's 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), placements for BTech students dropped by more than 10 percentage points in 2023-24 compared to 2021-22, according to the first such disclosure of data by the Union government.

Barring IIT (BHU) Varanasi, 22 of the 23 IITs have seen a drop in placements in 2023-24 compared to 2021-22, going by information provided by the government to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports.

In its report on the Department of Higher Education's demand for grants 2025-26, the Parliamentary Standing Committee headed by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh noted that there is an "unusual decline" in placements in IITs and IIITs between the year 2021-22 and 2023-24.