India, Sept. 21 -- An IIIT Delhi professor's post about caste discrimination in the IIT and IIIT system has sparked a debate online. Pravesh Biyani, who studied at IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, shared his personal experience of more than two decades in the system. He said he had never witnessed a teacher discriminate against a student on the basis of caste.

Biyani shared the post on X, where he wrote about his experiences as both a student and a teacher. According to his official profile, he completed his BTech at IIT Bombay in 2002 and his PhD at IIT Delhi in 2012. He has been associated with IIIT Delhi since 2014 and is currently a professor in its ECE department.

In his post, Biyani said that during his BTech, most students did not know ...