Severe crisis of talented teaching staff is being faced by a number of educational institutes across India. There are
thousands of vacant posts for teachers in IITs, IIMs and various other technical institutes. According to Government officials, there is a lack of skilled and talented youth applying for the vacant posts. As per a recent HRD ministry report, there are a total of
5606 vacant posts for faculty members in central universities out of which,
2806 seats are vacant in the IITs.
Around
1870 seats are vacant in the National Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science and Technology.
258 seats remained unfilled in prominent Indian Institutes of Management.
List of institutes with vacant posts :
1. Indian Institutes of Technology-2806
2. Indian Institutes of Management-258
3. Indian Institutes of Information Technology-324
4. School of Planning and Architecture (SPA)-96
5. Indian Institutes of Science (IISc), Bengaluru -88
6. Indian Institutes of Science and Research (IISERs)-100
R Subramanyam, secretary of Higher education, Ministry of HRD , said that there was
some error while preparing the list of the vacant teaching posts and the actual number of vacant teaching posts is
3000 which has remained vacant due to the absence of skilled youth. He also added that there will be a process to fill these vacancies once the correct list is out.
“ The rise in the number of vacancies is because of the review petition filed by the HRD ministry in the supreme court in April against the quota reservation for teachers appointment.”
Said Kuldeep Chand Agnihotri, vice chancellor, central university of Himachal Pradesh.
