Updated on: Monday, September 30, 2013
The Ideal teacher student ratio is the under of Indian Institute of Technologies. But the IIT’s facing a severe shortage in faculty position. The government fixed the teacher-student ratio in IIT should be 1 : 10, but this is the problem now.
6522 position in IIT are sanctioned so for throughout India and now 2618 are unfilled which accounts 40% shortage of teachers. The student’s intake has risen by 54% since 2006. As a result the teacher student ration becomes 1 : 15. In IIT Roorkee it is 1 : 20. It is the best at the New institutes of IIT – Roopar and IIT Madras. Where there is one teacher for every 2 students. The all India faculty strength is 3904