33 ||33% posts in central universities vacant ||
Premier educational institutions such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are witnessing a severe shortage of teachers with more than 31% and 43% teaching posts lying vacant, respectively, data from the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry revealed.
The matter was recently raised at the Lok Sabha to find out the measures being taken by the institutes to tackle the same. According to data presented by HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, of the 8,856 teaching posts across 23 IITs, 6,043 are filled, while 2,813 are vacant. Of the 7,413 teaching posts at 31 NITs, 4,202 are filled, while 3,211 are lying vacant.
Pokhriyal said the institutes should conduct special recruitment drives and publish advertisements regularly to fill up vacant faculty and non-faculty posts. Occurrence of vacancies and filling them up is a continuous process. The onus of filling up these posts lies with IITs and NITs, which are autonomous bodies. They have been requested to take steps to ensure that the vacancies are filled up at the earliest, the minister said.
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33 ||33% posts in central universities vacant || Premier educational institutions such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are witnessing a severe shortage of teachers with more than 31% and 43% teaching posts lying vacant, respectively, data from the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry revealed. The matter was recently raised at the Lok Sabha to find out the measures being taken by the institutes to tackle the same. According to data presented by HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, of the 8,856 teaching posts across 23 IITs, 6,043 are filled, while 2,813 are vacant. Of the 7,413 teaching posts at 31 NITs, 4,202 are filled, while 3,211 are lying vacant. Pokhriyal said the institutes should conduct special recruitment drives and publish advertisements regularly to fill up vacant faculty and non-faculty posts. Occurrence of vacancies and filling them up is a continuous process. The onus of filling up these posts lies with IITs and NITs, which are autonomous bodies. They have been requested to take steps to ensure that the vacancies are filled up at the earliest, the minister said. https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/31-teaching-posts-vacant-at-iits-govt-data/story-LgL96g7zBY7b4ASbbZBB6N.html