OBC boy enters IIM without quota
Panels mulling quota criteria in educational institutions could well take a leaf out of Tariq Chouhans book.
While filling the application forms for the Common Admission Test (CAT) to gain entry into any of the six prestigious B-schools of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Tariq, a student of Nirma University, had two options — he could either apply under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category to which he belonged, or under the general category. He chose the latter.
The reason, says Tariq, was because he did not need any support to get into the IIM.
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