Faculty Deficit At IIT-Guwahati

GUWAHATI: A disheartening 25 percent of the sanctioned posts of teachers at IIT-Guwahati are lying vacant, reflecting on a deficit that goes against students’ interests in one of the most prestigious and coveted higher education hubs of the country.

According to the data available with the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), while IIT-Guwahati has 25 percent posts vacant, IIT-Kharagpur has 46 percent posts vacant, IIT-Roorkee 42 percent, IIT-Kanpur 37 percent, IIT Delhi-29 percent, IIT Madras-28 percent and IIT-Bombay 27 percent.

The IITs in Guwahati, Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai, Roorkee, and Varanasi currently have 65,824 students, but they have just 4,049 teachers against 6,318 approved posts. Such development came to the light recently during the HRD Ministry’s reply to the RTI query filed by an RTI activist Chandrashekhar Gaud. With 2,269 vacancies, these IITs have one teacher for every 16 students.

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