Exempt IIT recruitments from reservation, suggests panel The committee’s five-page report submitted to the HRD ministry, now renamed Ministry of Education, on June 17 was made available on Wednesday under the Right to Information Act through an application filed in Uttar Pradesh. Updated: December 17, 2020 1:37:10 pm Report drew a sharp reaction from Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle at IIT Bombay. (File) An eight-member committee appointed by the government for suggesting measures for effective implementation of reservation in students admissions and faculty recruitment in IITs has recommended that the 23 engineering schools should be exempted from reservations under CEI Act, 2019, and rather than specific quotas, diversity issues should be addressed through outreach campaigns and targeted recruitment of faculty.