IIT-ians protest against reservation

Over 1,000 students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, on Tuesday took out a march opposing the move to provide reservation to backward classes in the Central educational institutions.

The students who took out a three km protest march inside the IIT campus said that the reservation would "affect merit in IITs".

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It would "split the student community on the basis of caste. It would not improve the socio-economic status of the OBCs, as it claimed, Ram who led the march told PTI.  The students had conducted a signature campaign against the issue a couple of days ago.

"We will send the protest letter signed by nearly 2000 IIT-ians to the President and the Ministry of Human Resources and Development," Ram said.

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