The Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India has directed the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to increase the admission of female candidates in the premier engineering colleges in the country by implementing IIT reservation for girls. A separate merit list will be declared for female candidates of JEE Advanced to ensure that there is 14 percent candidates given admission to the institutes are female. This new decision of having separate IIT reservation for girls has been taken to reduce the existing gender gap in the best engineering colleges in India.