Bihar reserves 33% seats in engineering, medical colleges for girls

Recently, the Chief Minister of Bihar asked the officials of the science and technology and the health and medical education departments to take necessary steps to reserve minimum 33.3% seats for girls in all engineering and medical colleges.

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The 33.3% quota for girls would be introduced in all engineering and medical colleges across the state from the coming academic session (2021-22).

With this, Bihar will become the first state in the country to provide 33.3% quota to girls in the technical colleges.

This will increase the number of girl students in the field of engineering and medical areas.

The state currently has 38 government-run and 17 private-run engineering colleges. All these colleges will come under the command of the proposed Bihar Engineering University.

The state has nine government and six private medical colleges. Works are going on to open 11 more medical colleges across the state. All these medical colleges would come under the command of the proposed ‘Bihar University of Medical Sciences.