Javadekar: 35% Faculty Posts Vacant in IITs and 53% in Central Universities

Shortage of faculty positions in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has been becoming a major concern for the institutes to run the classes. These centrally funded institutes including IITs and NITs are facing one-third faculty positions vacant. It is time for the government to launch a recruitment drive to fill up the vacant faculty positions. Minister of Human Resource and Development, Mr. Prakash Javadekar revealed that over 53% of faculty posts vacant in central universities and 35% faculty positions vacant in Indian Institutes of Technology. The situation of NITs is also at stake, as 47% teaching posts are vacant. He further indicated that the government would take up a massive recruitment drive in the next fifteen days.

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Mr. Javadekar said that the ministry has plans of re-employment and invited industry experts to fill up teaching vacancies. He assured that these centrally funded institutes would have at least 75% of permanent faculty by the end of 2017.

Among the IITs, around 39% faulty posts are vacant in older IITs, and 36% of teaching posts vacant in newer ones. Among the NITs, 14 out of 20 NITs have more than 40% teaching posts vacant. IIMs are also facing the similar problem with 26.01% of faculty positions vacant.

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The situation of the central universities is worse, as 75.11% of teaching posts vacant, particularly at the Central University of Haryana. Similarly, over 54.75% faculty positions vacant in the University of Delhi and 64% vacancies are to be filled at the University of Allahabad. The central universities have already started the recruitment process.