All India Council for Technical Education has announced that from now on two supernumerary seats will be reserved for naturally gifted and high potential students. These seats will be offered to them irrespective of whether they have scored marks according to the cut off of the college or not. They would remain immune to the barriers of entrances and other tests for selection into a prestigious university. They will have their own specific criterias for selection process which includes if they could have either won international/national level prizes, published original research paper, been the winner of hackathons, holding patents, having a registered startup (as per DPIIT norms) or even are owners of Apps on Google/Apple/Windows stores etc. After the proper checking of their documents is done, they would have to appear before the panel of selection for an interview.
