More than one third faculty positions are vacant
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New Delhi: The premier technical institutes in the country, IITs and NITs, are facing acute shortage of teachers with more than one third faculty positions lying vacant. It is understood that lack of qualified teachers and inability of government to attract teachers to these posts is hindering the process of recruiting new teachers to these institutes.
While the Narendra Modi government has promised to establish five more IITs — Jammu, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala — it has a mighty task of resolving the shortage of faculty in existing institutes. Sources stated that while 36.5 percent faculty positions are vacant in IITs (16), in case of NITs (30) the situation is even worse with 40.8 percent of such posts lying vacant.
( Source : dc )
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