IIM-C inducts largest ever batch
June 24th, 2011 - 11:42 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, June 24 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) has increased its student-intake by about 100 over the previous year to induct its largest ever batch of 462 students for the flagship post-graduate programme in management this year, an official said.
The premier management institute had inducted 365 students last year.
This year, the institute has fulfilled the criterion of absorbing 27 percent Other Backward Classes (OBC) students, said chairperson (admissions) Professor Janakiraman Moorthy. The criterion was reached over the years in a phased manner.
Moorthy said 50 percent of the students in the 2011-13 batch were from general category and the rest from various reserved categories, including 27 percent from the OBC quota.
The IIM-C was slated to meet the central government’s criterion of a 27 percent OBC intake in higher education last year, but held it back by a year as it needed to upgrade its infrastructure to absorb more students.
About seven percent of the students in the large batch comprise girls, down from 12 percent girl students taken for the post-graduate course last year.
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