IITs Finding it Hard to Balance Teacher-Student Ratio

Bangalore: With the demand for faculty increasing in many institutes, the Indian Institutes of Technology is also facing this crisis from quite some time. The chain of this elite technological institute will take nearly a decade to recover the ideal teacher-student ratio, reports Hemali Chhapia for The Times of India.

The government insists that IITs must have teacher-student ratio of 1:10, but in the current scenario they are experiencing a downfall on the teaching staff.

Many of these campuses are dealing with a shortage of teachers. From the 6,522 authorized faculty positions nationwide, 2,618 are yet vacant which accounts to 40percent scarcity of teachers.

A rise in the number of students since 2006 has produced a ratio of 1:15 today. The situation is worst in case of IIT-Roorkee where the ratio is 1:20, and is relatively superior at IIT-Ropar and IIT-Mandi, where there is one teacher for every two students.
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