The All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) reports that women's enrolment in higher education has increased to 48.6% in 2018-19, but the percentage of women enrolled in some STEM subjects is still significantly low. To address this difference, the Indian government has created extra places which have increased women enrolment in NITs from 14.17% in 2017 -18 to 17.53% in 2019-20 and from 8% in 2016 to 18% 2019-20 in IITs in the B.Tech programme.
