India, Feb. 12 -- Following a notice from the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), in a letter, has acknowledged that it no longer includes caste information of students on placement forms. The letter comes in response to a complaint by Dheeraj Singh, an IIT-Kanpur alumnus. It sought clarification on allegations of requiring students to disclose their caste and general rank in the Common Rank List (CRL) during placement registrations.

HT has a copy of the letter sent by the IITB registrar to NCSC.

In the letter, IITB accepted that its placement office previously collected category details to provide to Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) upon request. This practice has been dis...