Over the past five years, more than 13,600 students from reserved categories have withdrawn from central universities, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), as revealed in a recent disclosure in the Lok Sabha by Union Minister of State for Education, Subhas Sarkar. The statistics, provided in response to a query by BSP member Ritesh Pandey, outline the dropout numbers for different categories in each type of institution, as reported by PTI.