Lok Sabha Question No. 986 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-17
Subject: Staff and Infrastructure in IIT
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: DARSHANA VIKRAM JARDOSH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 986 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.12.2018

## Staff and Infrastructure in IIT

## 986.   SHRIMATI DARSHANA VIKRAM JARDOSH:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the status of details of availability of teaching staff, infrastructure facilities and teaching staff in each of the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) as on date, IITwise separately; and
- (b) the  extra  efforts  taken  by  the  Government  to  maintain  the  standards  of education and infrastructure in these new IITs at par with the older established ones?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a) & (b): Out of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) functioning in the Country as on date, 17 are functioning from their permanent campuses with necessary academic and administrative infrastructure in place. The remaining six  IITs  at  Palakkad,  Tirupati,  Jammu,  Dharwad,  Bhilai,  and  Goa,  which started their academic session from 2015-16 and 2016-17 are functioning from the  temporary  campuses.  However,  necessary  budgetary  support  has  been provided  to  these  IITs  to  put  in  place  necessary  infrastructure  such  as academic  and  administrative  buildings,  hostels,  medical  and  sports  facilities, laboratories, library etc.

As far as teaching staff is concerned, IITs strive to maintain a faculty-student ratio of 1:10 and hence the actual sanctioned strength fluctuates in proportion to  the  number  of  students.  As  of  November,  2018,  the  combined  sanctioned strength of faculty in IITs was 8856 against which, 6043 were in position with a vacancy of 2813.  To bridge this gap, IITs have been taking various measures including  year-round  open  advertisements,  invitation  through  search-cumselection  procedures  to  potential  faculty  in  India  and  abroad,  publication  of vacancy advertisements in international journals. In addition, Government has also launched schemes such as Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) to enable foreign faculty to teach courses in the higher educational institutions, Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) to attract bright students into Ph.D programmes as well as relaxing the norms for appointment of OCIs, NRIs and foreigners  as  faculty  in  IITs.    A  statement  indicating  IIT-wise  sanctioned strength and vacancy of faculty is annexed.

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REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  &  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 986 FOR 17.12.2018 REGARDING 'STAFF AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN IIT' RAISED BY SHRIMATI DARSHANA VIKRAM JARDOSH:

## Details of Faculty in respect of IITs

| Sl. No.   | Name of Institute   |   Sanctioned faculty strength |   Faculty in position |   Vacancy |
|-----------|---------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------|-----------|
| 1.        | IIT Bombay          |                          1034 |                   843 |       191 |
| 2.        | IIT Delhi           |                           776 |                   593 |       183 |
| 3.        | IIT Kanpur          |                           694 |                   435 |       259 |
| 4.        | IIT Kharagpur       |                          1203 |                   699 |       504 |
| 5.        | IIT Madras          |                           800 |                   633 |       167 |
| 6.        | IIT Guwahati        |                           596 |                   413 |       183 |
| 7.        | IIT Roorkee         |                           745 |                   437 |       308 |
| 8.        | IIT BHU(Varanasi)   |                           556 |                   339 |       217 |
| 9.        | IIT Hyderabad       |                           254 |                   200 |        54 |
| 10.       | IIT Jodhpur         |                            90 |                    72 |        18 |
| 11.       | IIT Bhubaneswar     |                           170 |                   149 |        21 |
| 12.       | IIT Gandhinagar     |                           160 |                   118 |        42 |
| 13.       | IIT Patna           |                           155 |                   119 |        36 |
| 14.       | IIT Indore          |                           150 |                   122 |        28 |
| 15.       | IIT Ropar           |                           150 |                   157 |        -7 |
| 16.       | IIT Mandi           |                           125 |                   109 |        16 |
| 17.       | IIT(ISM) Dhanbad    |                           711 |                   310 |       401 |
| 18.       | IIT Tirupati        |                            93 |                    64 |        29 |
| 19.       | IIT Palakkad        |                            93 |                    60 |        33 |
| 20.       | IIT Jammu           |                            93 |                    57 |        36 |
| 21.       | IIT Bhilai          |                            70 |                    38 |        32 |
| 22        | IIT Dharwad         |                            93 |                    34 |        59 |
| 23        | IIT Goa             |                            45 |                    42 |         3 |
|           | Total               |                          8856 |                  6043 |      2813 |

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