The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, on November 15, said it is looking into complaints that companies recruiting from the campus were discriminating against students hailing from a reserved category (Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe/Other Backward Class) by making it mandatory to reveal their entrance test ranks, and have put them at risk of having to disclose their socio-economic status.
The IIT’s Students’ Placement Office had received a complaint regarding such recruitment practices from an alumnus of IIT, Kanpur — who has for the last few months been counselling SC/ST students across IITs to help get them better job opportunities.
The former student, Dheeraj Singh, had then on Tuesday sent a discrimination complaint to the institute, the Education Ministry, the Social Justice Ministry, and the National Commissions for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes.
