The Indian Institute of Technology Madras will introduce sports quota seats in its undergraduate programmes from the next academic year. The institute said two supernumerary seats per UG programme and at least half of the seats will be for women students. IIT Madras is the first among the IITs to introduce separate quota for sportspersons.
The first of such initiatives among the IITs in the country, the ‘Sports excellence admission’ (SEA) is open to Indian nationals only.
Candidates must have qualified in Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) but the admission would not be through Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSSA) portal. The institute will operate a separate portal. More details are available at https://jeeadv.iitm.ac.in/sea
