The Centre is launching a major campaign to ensure the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) fill up two-thirds of their faculty vacancies in the next six months.
“There are 3,000 vacancies in the NITs, and the plan is to fill 2,000 of them in six months,” said an official of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, who did not wishing to be named.
The key technical education institutions are functioning short of the required faculty strength, which the Centre feels needs to be remedied to enhance the quality of education in them.
The initiative comes close on the heels of the Ministry filling up vacancies for directors in 11 NITs, including at Warangal and Durgapur, which were without a head for over a year.
Vacant positions at the NITs of Patna, Raipur, Silchar, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Agartala, Jamshedpur and Nagaland have also been filled, apart from Warangal and Durgapur.
