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30% reservation for girls in all technical institutes of Orissa
Following is an excerpt on this from a report in Pioneer.
… Henceforth, all the private engineering college and schools will adhere to the principle of giving reservation to women candidates. Earlier, the reservation facilities were available in 25 Government Industrial Training Institutes (ITI), seven engineering colleges and 13 engineering schools. The facilities would be extended to all other technical institutes of the State.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Director, Technical Education Srikant Paikray said all the Engineering Colleges, Schools, Industrial Training Institutes (ITI), Poly-techniques and Industrial Training Centre (ITC) will have to reserve 30 per cent seats for the girls students.
The State now boasts of 317 private ITIs, 41 private engineering colleges, 25 engineering schools and poly techniques. Henceforth, 30 per cent seats of the total 48,783 seats of these institutes would be reserved for women candidates.
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