Sports activities Quota: In a big transfer, the Indian Institute of Know-how (IIT), Madras has change into the at first IIT to introduce a sports activities quota for its undergraduate admissions. Based on i

Sports activities Quota: In a big transfer, the Indian Institute of Know-how (IIT), Madras has change into the at first IIT to introduce a sports activities quota for its undergraduate admissions. Based on its director V Kamakoti, this transfer will create two supernumerary seats in every course from the 2024-25 educational session. At the moment, the IITs do not need a sports activities quota whereas most of the nation’s premier universities, together with Delhi College, do. “Ranging from 2024-2025 educational session, IIT Madras will supply two supernumerary seats per undergraduate programme for Indian nationals underneath the Sports activities Excellence Admission (SEA) programme. We’re the primary IIT to introduce sports activities quota and the thought is to reward and encourage college students who’ve achieved a sure stage of excellence in sports activities of their alternative,” director V Kamakoti advised PTI.

“Two seats per programme will likely be allotted by means of the SEA. Whereas one will likely be gender-neutral, different will likely be female-only,” he additional added.

Eligibility Standards For Admission By means of SEA

To be able to be eligible for admission by means of SEA, candidates will need to have secured a place within the Widespread Rank Listing (CRL) or category-wise rank record within the JEE (Superior) and will need to have received at the very least one medal in any nationwide and international-level sports activities competitors within the final 4 years. The candidate can even be required to have obtained the minimal required class 12 marks as per the eligibility standards for IIT admissions. “A separate Sports activities Rank Listing (SRL) will likely be ready based mostly on the entire rating obtained by the candidates based mostly on their efficiency in particular record of sports activities. The seat allotment will likely be carried out based mostly on SRL solely,” he defined, PTI reported.

The concept was mooted by IIT Madras earlier than the IIT Council, the apex physique of the highest tech establishments, final yr. “The notion of sports activities quota exists within the larger training system in India however hasn’t been launched in IITs but. In precept, all IITs had welcomed the proposal. An in depth implementation modalities and timelines had been ready in session with JEE Apex Board (JAB),” he mentioned.

JAB is accountable for deciding pointers for the conduct of JEE (Most important) examination and likewise coordinating the conduct of JEE (Superior) examination for admissions to IITs. IIT Madras is conducting the JEE-Superior this yr.

Among the many sports activities for which candidates will likely be eligible for admission underneath the quota are aquatic, athletics, chess, cricket, badminton, basketball, soccer, hockey, squash, desk tennis, garden tennis, volleyball and weightlifting. “For the tutorial yr 2024-2025, the SEA will contemplate the scores obtained by the candidates in these sports activities solely to make sure the provision of amenities on the admitting IIT in order that the candidates can proceed to excel in sports activities,” Kamakoti mentioned.

Totally different weightage will likely be allotted to completely different nationwide and worldwide video games with the very best being for World Championship and SAF video games. Within the worldwide class, the competitions from which medal winners will likely be eligible embrace Olympics, Commonwealth Championship, Asian Video games and World College Video games. The nationwide competitions embrace Federation Cup, All India Inter-College, Khelo India College Video games, Khelo India Youth Video games, Khelo India Faculty Video games and All India Faculty Video games.

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