MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT(SHRI KAPIL SIBAL)
(a) & (b): There is a gap between the sanctioned strength
and the teachers in position in most of the
Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs),
including the newly established Indian Institutes of
Technology (IITs). Due to extremely good employment
opportunities with attractive pay-packages as a
consequence of globalisation, fewer number of
B.Tech. students are opting for higher studies viz
M.Tech. / Ph.D. / Research Assign-ments, etc,
leading to faculty shortage. IITs have been
employing suitable strategies to attract and retain
their quality faculty members which include
providing of good residential accommodation, good
medical facilities, initial research grants and
suitable schemes for sharing of consultancy charges.
IITs have also increased their intake in Ph.D.
programmes with a view to make available increased
number of eligible persons to take up faculty positions.
(c) : Each new IIT have been sanctioned 30 faculty posts
each year for the first three years. The faculty
position of the 8 new IITs are shown below :
IIT- IIT- IIT- IIT- IIT- IIT- IIT- IIT-
Hyderabad Patna Jodhpur Bhubaneswar Gandhinagar Ropar Mandi Indore
57 45 21 46 43 40 29 36
(d) to (f): IITs are recruiting Persons of Indian Origin
(PIOs) and Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) for
various faculty positions. Copies of advertisements
are also sent to the Indian Embassies / High
Commissions abroad viz the USA, the UK, Canada,
Italy, Austria, Japan, etc, to give wide publicity
for which arrangements are made for interviews
through video-conferencing / tele-conferencing.
Also, whenever Directors, Deputy Directors, Deans and
senior faculty members visit abroad for other
assignments, they make it a point to motivate
outstanding prospective applicants to join IITs.
(g) & (h): Recruitment of faculty is a continuous process and
all out efforts are made by the Institutes to fill up
the vacant posts. IITs have been employing suitable
strategies to attract and retain quality faculty which
include provision of good residential accommodation,
medical facilities, initial research grants, financial
support for participation in National / International
confer-ences, suitable schemes for sharing of
consultancy charges, etc.
