AP State bags majority of seats in IITs

Nearly 2,000 students from the State will enter the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year, which is nearly 30 per cent of the 6,000 odd seats, including the new IITs coming up from this year.

The All India first rank in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category was bagged by Rapolu Nikhil Simha while first in the State in the open category is the all India 7th ranker Ch. Dinesh. Both the students belong to Sri Chaitanya institutions. The all India 8th ranker and second in the State M. Praneeth comes from the Chukka Ramaiah institute.

Interestingly, among the 2,000 students likely to get into IITs from the State come from Narayana institutions (1,078 students), Sri Chaitanya institutions (733 students) and Ramaiah institute (118 students). A few other institutes like Delta Educational Academy, FIIT-JEE and Krishna Murthy Academy contributed some students to the total.

Growing awareness among parents and the performance of senior students in the IIT coupled with the craze for IIT education in the State are said to be the reasons for the stupendous performance. Changes in the Intermediate curriculum taking it closer to CBSE syllabus is another reason.

Moreover, during the last two years corporate colleges have designed special curriculum for IIT coaching and that seems to have also contributed to the higher success rate, given the massive increase in number of successful candidates from both Narayana and Sri Chaitanya.

B.S. Rao, Chairman of Sri Chaitanya, agreed that the academic plans and introduction of students to the changing patterns have really helped while P. Narayana of Narayana institutions said if the Intermediate syllabus is further modified, State students could bag 50 per cent of the IIT seats.