New Delhi: Minister of human resource development (HRD) Prakash Javadekar Monday claimed his ministry has been working to fill the void of teachers in technical education in the state by taking onboard young qualified youths.
The minister informed media here that his ministry has selected some states including Odisha to support technical education and Rs 2,600 crore has been earmarked for next three years for the scheme named Technical Education Quality Improvement Project (TEQUIP).
“Fresh IIT and NIT graduates under the TEQUIP scheme have opted for going to backward areas in select states where there is a faculty crunch and will impart quality education to students so that it reaches out to more students.”
Sources in the ministry said 65 new faculty members, who are mostly fresh graduates from premier institutes like Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), National Institute of Technology (NIT) and PhD holders have joined four selected government engineering colleges in Odisha including one in Kalahandi.
These fresh graduates will be on a three-year contract and will be paid Rs 70,000 per month. Earlier, the ministry chose 65 new faculty members for Odisha engineering colleges out of 5,000 applicants from premier institutes who opted for going to remote areas in developing states of the country to teach students in government engineering colleges.
The HRD ministry claims that often complaints relating to shortage of teachers in technical education came from some areas in some states. The ministry came up with the plan to tackle the issue by recruiting fresh graduates who would go to these areas on a contract basis for teaching students in these areas.
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