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PM Modi flags few women among IIT Delhi medal winners
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at IIT Delhi's 57th convocation, noted the low number of women among academic medal recipients. "It would have been even better if there were a few more…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at IIT Delhi's 57th convocation, noted the low number of women among academic medal recipients. "It would have been even better if there were a few more girls among them. Sorry. Why just one or two? There should have been more," he said. Modi conferred top honours including the President's Gold Medal and inaugurated Param Pragya, an AI-focused supercomputing facility at the institute's Sonipat campus.
The Indian Opinion
Modi's remark about women medal winners is a rare moment of self-critical honesty from a government platform, but it risks being a rhetorical signal without policy muscle. IITs have long struggled with gender balance at entry and at the top. The question is not just about counting more women at one convocation, but whether the next JEE Advanced numbers or PhD enrolments show real movement. That data will settle the matter.
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