IIT Delhi to hold open house for women candidates on June 23

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will organise an open house on June 23 for the women students who qualified the JEE (Advanced) this year.

During the counselling at the IIT Delhi on June 23, women students will get an opportunity to discuss their choice of branch/institute with faculty, current students and alumni.

They will find out about the lives of women students at the IITs in general and the IIT Delhi in particular, a statement released here said.

Representatives from the IIT Mandi will also turn up for the open house at the IIT Delhi to share information about their campus.

The first session of the open house will start at 10 am. The second will commence at 2 pm.

The duration of each session will be three hours.

This year, around 17 per cent of the seats in every branch of the IITs have been designated as "female-only seats".

This has been done by creating sufficient supernumerary seats, without any reduction in the number of seats available to non-women candidates.

Prof Sumeet Agarwal, nodal officer, JEE (women) helpdesk, IIT-Delhi, said, "The total number of female-only seats across all IITs is 2,415, whereas the total number of women who qualified the JEE (Advanced) is 5,356. Qualified women candidates have a good chance of getting an IIT seat and branch of their choice."