Mumbai: Directors of the seven IITs and the other two top technology institutes who met to discuss the phased implementation of the 27 per cent quota for OBCs minus the creamy layer in three years, have decided to reserve nine per cent seats each year in view of the inadequate infrastructure.
 
The seven IITs, the BHU Institute of Technology and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, would increase their seats by 13 per cent in the coming academic year to implement the quota, the directors said after the meeting.

Three new IITs will start operating from the coming session in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan.

"There are several issues to be discussed. But the main issue is to chalk out a strategy to implement the OBC reservation," IIT Delhi director Prof Surendra Prasad said, adding, "On the creamy layer issue, we will go by the instructions of the government. The family income will be the criteria." 

The directors also are believed to have discussed the enhancement of infrastructure and other facilities to increase the intake of the students.

There are at present about 4,000 seats in the seven IITs at Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati and Roorkee.

The number of seats could be increased to 5,000 this year to implement the OBC quota.

Nearly 3.2 lakh students appeared in the IIT entrance test on April 13. The results would be announced in the last week of May after which counselling for admissions would start.