The Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) recently reported the availability of around 5,600 posts of faculty members in central universities across the country. Out of these 5600 post nearly 2800 are vacant only in IITs.
Number of vacant positions in various institutes are as follows:
The institutions are adopting various measures to address faculty shortage in order to ensure that studies of students are not affected which inter-alia, includes engaging research scholars, contract, re-employed, adjunct and visiting faculty.