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IIT Kharagpur Allegedly Fakes Numbers To Rank Higher, Receives Caution Letter From HRD Ministry
IIT Kharagpur main building (image via wikipedia)
National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) has issued a letter of warning to the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) after the Ministry of Human Resource Development received complaints about the Institute for fudging facts to improve the institute’s ranking, Indian Express has reported.
This year, IIT-Kharagpur ranked the fourth best engineering institute in the country. It also ranked first in architecture category, seventh in management and fourth among law schools.
The letter stated that the authorities lied to score points in 'initiatives for students with disabilities' parameter, that the institute has either lifts or ramps and specially designed toilets for persons with disabilities in all its buildings. Out of the 48 departments and buildings on campus, only 11 had these facilities.
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