These 5 national athletes qualified JEE (Advanced) to secure seat in IIT Madras 

This inaugural is taken to recognise and reward talented students who person excelled successful sports. This programme encourages deserving students to prosecute higher acquisition portion continuing to excel successful their sports.

Prof V Kamakoti, director, IIT Madras, said, “The sports excellence admittance is an inaugural of IIT Madras chiefly to nonstop the important connection that young children indispensable beryllium encouraged to play during their childhood. I sincerely anticipation this reaches to each concerned.”

The 5 athletes admitted nether ‘Sports Excellence Admission’ during the 2024-25 world twelvemonth are:

1. Arohi Bhave, (volleyball player) from Maharashtra – Admitted into BS (Medical Sciences and Engineering)

2. Aryaman Mandal (water polo and swimming) from West Bengal – Admitted into BTech (Computer Science and Engineering)

3. Nandini Jain (squash player) from Delhi – Admitted into BTech (Computer Science and Engineering)

4. Prabhav Gupta, (table tennis player) from Delhi – Admitted into B. Tech (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science)

5. Vangala Vedavachan Reddy (lawn tennis player) from Andhra Pradesh – Admitted into BTech (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science)

Prof Mahesh Panchagnula, head, Center of Excellence successful Sports Science and Analytics (CESSA), IIT Madras, said, “This inaugural was conceptualised astir 2 years ago. Prof V Kamakoti is precise keen to spot divers and meritorious endowment travel into IIT Madras. After a batch of deliberations internally and with assorted stakeholders, the Institute admitted the archetypal cohort of Sports Excellence Admission students successful July 2024 to our undergraduate programs.”

Prof Mahesh Panchagnula, who is besides Dean (Emeritus), IIT Madras, added, “We had respective applications but finally, we were capable to admit 5 students of fantabulous lasting and yet academically qualified. They person passed JEE (Advanced), similar immoderate different IIT student. In that sense, determination is nary compromise connected the comparative prime of world merit that is expected but astatine the aforesaid time, rewards sports pursuit and excellence.”

Further, Prof Mahesh Panchagnula said, “Our endeavor is to bring exertion into the satellite of sports to assistance athletes and coaches amended their performances. We are besides focused connected making definite that sports is mainstream by offering courses successful the domain of Sports Science done Sports Physiology, Sports Psychology, Sports Biomechanics and galore different probe areas. CESSA is astatine the forefront of moving with a batch of sports federations and agencies to assistance our National athletes excel connected the satellite stage.”

The admittance process for SEA is done the JEE introspection and requires candidates to suffice JEE (Advanced) but would not beryllium done the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) portal but alternatively done a abstracted portal operated by IIT Madras.

To beryllium eligible for admittance done this program, candidates indispensable person secured a presumption successful the Common Rank List (CRL) oregon category-wise fertile database successful the JEE (Advanced) and indispensable person won astatine slightest 1 medal successful immoderate National/International-level sports contention successful the past 4 years.

A abstracted ‘Sports Rank List’ (SRL) volition beryllium prepared based connected the full people obtained by the candidates based connected their show successful a circumstantial database of sports. The spot allotment volition beryllium done based connected this list.