Iit: Faculty Furore ; Iit Faculty Want More Money and Greater Autonomy Than the Hrd Ministry, in Full Muscle-Flexing Mode, Is Ready to Give. It's a Confrontation with Echoes From the Past.

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Crossing swords with the IITs and the IIMs has not done previous Human Resource Development (HRD) ministers any good. And it is certainly ruffling Kapil Sibal's hitherto smooth exterior.

It all began with the ministry's September 16 order which pegged the salary for directors of the IITs and IIMs and faculty members at a much lower scale than they anticipated. They were not expecting to be told that only four out of every 10 professors would be eligible for higher pay after six years.

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Iit: Faculty Furore ; Iit Faculty Want More Money and Greater Autonomy Than the Hrd Ministry, in Full Muscle-Flexing Mode, Is Ready to Give. It's a Confrontation with Echoes From the Past.

Added to that was the diktat that fresh PhDs would be inducted into the faculty on contract and made permanent only after completing a certain tenure. It was the signal for a standoff and sure enough, on September 24, some 3,000 members of the All India IIT Faculty Federation (AIIFF) went on a nationwid...

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