Category information for PSU recruiters not collected from 2024 onwards: IIT Bombay
The Hindu
IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay respond to allegations of caste-profiling by placement offices, with changes implemented from 2024.
With Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi denying charges of caste-profiling students by its placements office, IIT Bombay has said that it has had a practice of collecting caste category information of students applying for jobs through their placement portal but that this practice had been stopped from 2024 onwards.
IIT Bombay’s statement came as it was responding to a notice issued by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), which is investigating a complaint of alleged caste-profiling by these institutes for the year 2023-24.
In their response to the Commission, IIT Bombay said that “in the past” its placement office collected category information of students to supply it to PSU recruiters that required this information.
It added that the institute’s placement office had stopped collecting this information from 2024 onwards, adding that PSUs recruiters are now told to seek this information as and when they need it without involving the institute’s placement office. The institute did not elaborate why it had stopped collecting this information from 2024 onwards.
The complaint of caste-profiling, by an IIT alumnus, was filed in November 2023, by IIT alumnus and activist Dheeraj Singh.
In its response to the NCSC’s notice, IIT Delhi had denied charges of caste profiling and insisted that the complainant was incorrect and mistaken to make this allegation. It had claimed that the caste category of students was never made visible to the recruiters, but it had nevertheless decided to remove the fields from the students’ interface as well.
While both the institutes have now responded to the NCSC’s notice, the Ministry of Education, which was also asked to submit an action-taken report, is yet to submit its response, complainant Dheeraj Singh told The Hindu.
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