Engineering colleges face 30% vacancy in faculty positions

The goal of producing more capable engineering graduates has always been a challenge and now it seems that institutional challenges of hiring a technical faculty seems to be one of the major problems ahead of that. According to reports, around 30% of faculty positions in private engineering institutes at the undergraduate (UG) level throughout India are vacant.

As per data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in December 2014, the average faculty crunch across India is of 30%. In the states of Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Gujarat, there is over 33% shortage of engineering faculty. The state of Tamil Nadu (TN), which has the most number of engineering colleges after AP, has a faculty shortage of 27.9%.

It was reported that All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the statutory body of the technical education system has approved around four times more faculty posts for engineering institutes across the country than what is actually required. Although the council has approved 15.8 lakh faculty posts, only a little over four lakhs are necessary. Still, the colleges are facing the severe crunch with a mere 2.95 lakh professors. Hence, the problem lies with filling all the sanctioned faculty posts.

It was mentioned that private institutions often fail to find quality professors due to their unwillingness to invest in attractive salaries for faculty. In many instances, although candidates are keen to teach courses such as computer science, mechanical engineering, electronics, etc., they may not make the cut with the management when they appear for the interview. 

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