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All the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country will be connected through National Knowledge Network in the next two years.
Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, said that the government is connecting all the IITs in the country so that the education of students in these institutes does not get affected owing to the shortage of faculty. He said that in the old IITs, 1,266 posts for faculty lie vacant and it is 515 in the new IITs.
“This will help students of other institutions in getting rid of the problems related to their courses, which couldn’t be addresses due to shortage of faculty,” he said, adding that the government is also getting ‘Open Source of Materials’ prepared for hundreds of courses by professionals for students in public and private institutions.
The government will also start MTech course in all technological institutions of the country.
The minister said that there is a need to create more IIT-like institutions in the country and the government has plans to set up IITs in every state and union territory of the country. Since these IITs were set up in the early 1960s, they also need to be revamped by changing the curricula and other things.
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Dr P H Waghodekar Wed, 2011-03-30 04:05
The faculty shortage in IITs is worrysome. What is about NITs? All private colleges are also facing similar problems but to a limted extent. This can be so because of the recruitment flexibility, selection committees relax norms (not of paper degree)and the incumbant exploits management under regulatory bodies pressure, especially of paper degrees, and gets unheard salary, e.g., most of the Assistant Professors without ME/MTech, Associat Professors without PhD and Professor/Principals with PhDs (earned from universities) demand/claim very high compensations, principal's package is Rs 1.5 to 1.75 L pm. Moreover, ME/MTech and PhDs earned from university affilaited colleges are too much diluted, donot speak about quality as no classes on regular basis are conducted, the ground reality, only teachers do such programs. What is the fate of UG students who are taught by third rate MEs and PhDs? The disastorous effects are surfacing. No opposition to expansion, but it must be planned, mechanism ensuring quality be in place, no exploitation no corruption. Intellectual corruption is most dangerous. Be wary about the pitfalls of unplanned expansion, just to increase the number and not quality.
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