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Package to woo retiring IIT faculty mooted
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 16:56 IST
Chennai: With the mushrooming of engineering institutions, including six new IITs being launched this year, shortage of faculty is an area of acute concern. To solve this problem, the government is wooing retired IIT professors and government scientists as well as bright students on the verge of finishing their Ph.D. They can soon become the target of IIT faculty recruitment, with the government suggesting a special package to woo them.
One way of dealing with this problem would be for the IITs to "consider providing a special package for those faculty members retiring at the age of 65 as well as for eminent scientists retiring at the age of 60 from CSIR laboratories, DRDO laboratories or some private corporations," said Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari while inaugurating the golden jubilee of IIT Madras.
In this regard, IITs take a proactive approach and compile data on potential young candidates available abroad. "If the IITs could recruit students on the verge of completing post-doctoral research either in India or abroad, once they were earmarked as potential faculty, they could be given support to continue post-doctoral research in any premier institution of their choice," she said. "The IITs can also consider employing adjunct faculty from the ranks of those working in industrial R&D establishments as well as faculty members of Indian origin working in American and European universities," she added.
"The IITs should look to retain the 1,000 Ph.D scholars passing out of their own institutions every year, as well as attract the 50,000 Indian students doing their Ph.D. abroad," said R.P. Agrawal, secretary, Higher Education, in the Union Ministry for Human Resource Development.
