IITs Should Be Exempt from Reservation in Faculty Appointments, Centre's Panel Suggests The panel said the engineering schools should be exempt from implementing quota-based appointments because they are institutes of national importance. IIT Delhi. Photo courtesy: IIT Delhi website Rights17/Dec/2020 New Delhi: A panel appointed by the Centre has recommended that IITs should be exempted from reservations in faculty appointment. Ironically, the panel’s mandate was to suggest measures for ‘effective implementation’ of reservation in admissions and recruitment. Indian Express, the eight-member committee has recommended that the 23 IITs should be exempted from reservations under Central Education Institutions (CEI) Act, 2019, and rather than specific quotas, issues of diversity should be addressed through “outreach campaigns and targeted recruitment of faculty”.