By Avantika Sharma

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar gave the information in response to a written question in Rajya Sabha. The Ministry of Education informed the Rajya Sabha that over 4,500 faculty positions are vacant at 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

The maximum vacant faculty positions are in IIT Kharagpur (815) followed by IIT Bombay (532), IIT Dhanbad (447), IIT Madras (396), IIT Kanpur (351), IIT Roorkee (296) and IIT BHU (289). He said IIT Delhi has 73 vacant faculty positions, IIT Bhubaneshwar (115), IIT Gandhinagar (45), IIT Hyderabad (132), IIT Indore (81), IIT Jodhpur (65), IIT Mandi (73), IIT Patna (100), IIT Ropar (69), IIT Tirupati (18), IIT Palakkad (24), IIT Jammu (31), IIT Bhillai (43), IIT Goa (40) and IIT Dharwad (39).

Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar said the faculty recruitment takes time since it involves a number of stages in the process. The Ministry of Education has requested all IITs to fill up the vacancies in faculty cadre through special recruitment drive in mission mode. Further, IIMs also follow a rolling advertisement system for applications for the faculty positions and have also been asked to fill vacancies in a mission mode,” he added.

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