KANPUR, Aug. 31 -- Several premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), including IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur, have failed to meet this year's target for admitting women students, while others such as IIT Tirupati, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, and IIT Kanpur have exceeded the mandated enrolment.

The details were revealed in the JEE (Advanced) 2025 admission report, released by IIT Kanpur, the organising institute for this year's examination.

To address the long-standing gender imbalance across IITs, the IIT Council had mandated that at least 20% of seats be filled by women students, in addition to reserving a number of supernumerary seats.

This year, counselling and allocation of seats were conducted by the Joint Seat Allocation Authorit...