More than 1,200
youngsters with Ph.D and M. Tech degrees from institutions like Indian
Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and National
Institutes of Technology will spend the next three years teaching at 53
government engineering colleges in rural areas of districts lagging behind in
technical education.
Human Resource
Development Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters on Wednesday that these
teachers had already joined the colleges. The teachers will be there on a three-year
contract and get paid Rs. 70,000 a month.
Later, they can
either choose to stay in academics or join the corporate world.
This initiative,
entailing an expenditure of Rs. 370 crore, is a result of the Centre helping
state governments fill up vacancies in backward districts in 11 states where
engineering students were suffering because of dearth of teachers.
“5,000 people
had applied. Out of those, 1,225 were selected and they have already joined,”
Mr. Javadekar said.
“As many as one
lakh students in these developing states will benefit as a result of this.”
Among the over 1200 candidates selected, about 300 have PhD degrees and about
900 have M.Tech degrees.
The focus is on
states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha
and the Andaman and the Nicobar Islands.
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