Huge vacancy of faculty in IITs, IIMs

Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management are facing huge vacancy of faculty despite having attractive pay structure, good accommodation and other perks, Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.

IIT Kharagpur is facing maximum vacancy of 299 faculty, followed by 222 in IIT Bombay, 194 in IIT Roorkee, 138 in IIT Madras, 78 in IIT Delhi, 69 in IIT Kanpur and 65 in IIT Guwahati, Minister of State for HRD, D Purandeswari, said in a written reply.

In fact, the number of vacancy increased from 877 in the seven old IITs in 2008-09 to 1,065 in 2009-10, she said. The vacancy in these institutions in 2007-08 was 971.

The government has started eight more IITs in the last two years and in these centres' the number of vacant posts stood at 280, Purandeswari said.

Similarly, there are 95 vacant posts in the seven IIMs. IIM-Bangalore has maximum vacancy of 35 posts followed by 29 in IIM-Ahmedabad.

"Recruitment of faculty is a continuous process and all out efforts are made by the institutes to fill up vacant posts. Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty which include attractive pay structure, provisions of good residential accommodation, medical facilities, initial research grants etc," she said.