1,100 Guota Seats in IITs Unfilled

• Every year,lakhs of students burn the midnights oil for months to get into the hallowed Indian Institutes of Technology.

• But as admissions closed on wednesday,one startling factemerged-there weren't enough qualified. candidates to fill up the reserved seats on offer for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes,or the physically challenged.

DC dd 26/06/09