After IIT-Kharagpur was ranked the top institution in the
country by QS Employability Ranking and IIT-Bombay figuring in the list of top
100 universities in the world, the government in a recent Parliament session on
Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that the overall students’ strength of the Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country will be increased to one lakh by
2020.
Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of State for Human
Resource Development, said the IIT-Council has approved the proposal for
increasing the overall students’ strength in the IITs from the current 82,604
to one lakh by the year 2020 at its 50th meeting held on Wednesday.
“IITs have been taking measures to attract quality
faculty, which include year-round open advertisements, invitation through
search-cum-selection procedures to alumni/scientists/faculty, advertisements in
international journals, and appointment of NRIs and PIOs to faculty positions
on the same terms as applicable to regular faculty. In addition, Institutes are
engaging contract, adjunct and visiting faculty," the Minister said, while
speaking about the initiative.
“The government has also launched the Global Initiative
for Academic Networks (GIAN) to enable foreign faculty to teach some courses in
the higher educational institutions,” said the minister. He also said that
several steps such as outstanding young faculty awards, mobility of faculty
from one central educational institute to another, and pay parity to faculty
have also been taken to attract best faculty in these institutions.
The HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said that multiple
strategies will be employed to push up research, encourage collaborations with
foreign institutes and academics and draw foreign students as well so that the
IITs are able to dispel the 'perception' that worked against them on global
rankings.
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