Ropar: Indian Institute of Technology - Ropar (IIT-Ropar) is facing teacher’s shortage with as many as 45 faculty posts lying vacant in the institute, three years after its inception.
As per sources, the electrical, computer science, chemistry, physics, and mathematics departments are facing the crunch. Besides, the MTech classes have also not commenced yet.
Dr Rajendra Srivastava, in charge, PhD admissions, has informed that, at present, there are 45 faculty members against the total requirement of 90. He also mentioned that the recruitment process is going on and vacant posts would be filled up in the next few months.
The official statistics has revealed that there are 45 faculty members for nearly 488 students, which include research scholars, in the campus. Besides, if the student-teacher ratio is considered, it is still far from the best at 1:8. At present, the ratio is 1:11 at IIT-Ropar with five faculty members having left recently.
