IITs, IIMs facing faculty crunch
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 22 April 2010, 15:16 IST   |    7 Comments
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IITs, IIMs facing faculty crunch
New Delhi: Although the government is providing attractive pay, accommodation and other benefits, IITs and IIMs are facing huge vacancy of faculty, Minister of State for HRD, D Purandeswari said in Lok Sabha. IIT Kharagpur is facing a maximum vacancy of 299 faculties, followed by 222 in IIT Bombay, 194 in IIT Roorkee, 138 in IIT Madras, 78 in IIT Delhi, 69 in IIT Kanpur and 65 in IIT Guwahati, said the Minister in a written reply. In fact, the number of vacancy increased from 877 in the seven old IITs in 2008-09 to 1,065 in 2009-10, she said. The vacancy in these institutions in 2007-08 was 971. There are 280 vacant posts in the new eight IITs that started in the last two years. Likewise, there are 95 vacant posts in the seven IIMs. IIM-Bangalore has maximum vacancy of 35 posts followed by 29 in IIM-Ahmedabad. "Recruitment of faculty is a continuous process and all out efforts are made by the institutes to fill up vacant posts. Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty which include attractive pay structure, provisions of good residential accommodation, medical facilities, initial research grants etc," said Purandeswari.

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