<p class="title">At least 1,225 MTech and PhD freshers from reputed technical institutes "volunteer" for appointment as assistant professors for engineering colleges across 11 States to tide over a critical shortage of teaching faculty.</p>.<p class="title">The appointments, including in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, is on a three-year contract.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry facilitated the appointments under a World Bank assisted programme, thereby filling up "all vacant posts" of assistant professors in 53 engineering colleges in one go.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The new faculty will be paid Rs 70,000 a month and the (Central) government proposes to spend about Rs 375 crore over a 3-year period on this initiative," HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">More than one lakh engineering students in the most backward areas would be benefited by "better quality education," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"These students (faculty) opted for teaching job on contract basis with a spirit of patriotism. I thank them," the Minister added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 5,000 freshers with MTech or PhD degree had "voluntarily" applied for the job following "a public appeal" by the government.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Spirit of service </p>.<p class="bodytext">"Teachers do not want to go to far off locations or rural areas to teach at higher educational institutions. I admire the spirit of these fresh MTech and PhD scholars who came forward," the Minister said.<br /><br />The contract faculty, many of whom have graduated from Indian Insitutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other centrally-funded premier technical institutes, have been appointed to teach at engineering colleges in Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The entire process of call for and selection was through a competitive and rigorous process of selection done through NITs in a record 2-month period," the Minister said.</p>
<p class="title">At least 1,225 MTech and PhD freshers from reputed technical institutes "volunteer" for appointment as assistant professors for engineering colleges across 11 States to tide over a critical shortage of teaching faculty.</p>.<p class="title">The appointments, including in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, is on a three-year contract.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry facilitated the appointments under a World Bank assisted programme, thereby filling up "all vacant posts" of assistant professors in 53 engineering colleges in one go.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The new faculty will be paid Rs 70,000 a month and the (Central) government proposes to spend about Rs 375 crore over a 3-year period on this initiative," HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">More than one lakh engineering students in the most backward areas would be benefited by "better quality education," he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"These students (faculty) opted for teaching job on contract basis with a spirit of patriotism. I thank them," the Minister added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As many as 5,000 freshers with MTech or PhD degree had "voluntarily" applied for the job following "a public appeal" by the government.</p>.<p class="CrossHead">Spirit of service </p>.<p class="bodytext">"Teachers do not want to go to far off locations or rural areas to teach at higher educational institutions. I admire the spirit of these fresh MTech and PhD scholars who came forward," the Minister said.<br /><br />The contract faculty, many of whom have graduated from Indian Insitutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other centrally-funded premier technical institutes, have been appointed to teach at engineering colleges in Andaman and Nicobar, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The entire process of call for and selection was through a competitive and rigorous process of selection done through NITs in a record 2-month period," the Minister said.</p>