New Delhi: On Wednesday i.e. on April 21, 2010,the Lok Sabha was informed about the huge faculty crisis in Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) as well as in Indian Institute of Management (IIMs).
D Purandeswari, HRD Minister of State, in a written reply has said that IIT-Kharagpur had the maximum vacancy of 299 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. The number of vacancy increased from 877 in the seven old IITs in 2008-09 to 1,065 in 2009-10. The vacancy in these institutions in 2007-08 was 971. Moreover, the government has started eight more IITs in the last two years and in these centres, the number of vacant posts stood at 280,
Further, Ms Purandeswari mentioned that seven IIMs have 95 vacancies. IIM-Bangalore has the maximum vacancy of 35 posts followed by 29 in IIM-Ahmedabad. She added that the recruitment of faculty is a continuous process and all efforts are made by institutes to fill up vacant posts. Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty, which include attractive pay structure, provision of good accommodation, medical facilities, initial research grants etc.
