new delhi while iitroorkee has had to readmit students from reserved categories despite their failing to maintain required grades the uttarakhand high court had supported the iits right to set academic standards hrd minister smriti irani told lok sabha on wednesday irani told the house in response to a question that iits have extensive support systems to help students overcome barriers such as language and their progress was monitored on a monthly basis the students who were allowed to appear in a reexamination would have to meet the benchmarks set by the institute in the future she said the minister said iits have devised programmes to assist students who face academic stress and have the power to expel students who consistently fail to meet the benchmarks set by the governing council on another question relating to shortage of welltrained teachers irani said the dropout rate was not directly related to quality of faculty she said reports of high dropout rates in premier institutes were taken note of and the institutions concerned had been asked to send in their responses to the ministry irani said the government was working with various institutes to ensure vacancies were filled and referred to prime minister narendra modis announcement in december 2014 with regard to a new scheme to boost training of teachers with a fiveyear course after schooling