India, March 28 -- Placements for BTech students in 22 out of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) saw a drop in 2023-24 compared to 2021-22.

The one institute which was the exception was IIT (BHU) Varanasi, according to an Indian Express report which cited data provided by the centre to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports.

The Standing Committee headed by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh noted that this is an "unusual decline," in its report on the Department of Higher Education's demand for grants 2025-26.

On top of this, BTech placements across more than half of the 23 IITs fell by over 10 percentage points in the same time period, primarily affecting the older and more prominent ...