Over 400 IIT-Delhi professors on leave over pay dispute
August 25th, 2009 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Following the protest move of the other Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), over 400 professors of IIT-Delhi went on casual leave Tuesday over pay disparities.
“All the 428 professors have gone on leave for one day. The ministry of human resources development is the real villain,” said Hem Chandra Gupta, professor of Physics at IIT-Delhi.
While IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur professors had gone on leave Friday, those from IIT-Bombay and IIT-Roorkee boycotted classes Monday to highlight the “government’s apathy” towards their pay related problems.
The professors alleged that the HRD ministry had sidelined the Goverdhan Mehta Committee report which had recommended better pay structure for IIT professors.
“The HRD ministry has tinkered with the report here and there. I don’t know what benefit they will get by not paying the IITs well,” Gupta added.
He said that IITs are the only global brand and not taking care of the institutes would prove a disaster.
- Indian varsities slip in global ranking - Sep 06, 2011
- IIT-Delhi professors go on mass casual leave demanding pay hike - Aug 25, 2009
- IIT professors go on mass casual leave for pay hike - Aug 24, 2009
- IIT professors go on mass casual leave for pay hike (Lead) - Aug 24, 2009
- IITs, IISc to use CAT 2011 for MBA admissions - Aug 29, 2011
- Can't quit IIT, reappear in entrance test: Court - Apr 05, 2012
- IIT faculty row to be sorted out soon: director - Sep 22, 2009
- IIT alumni keen to push Punjab growth - Aug 21, 2010
- IIT student held for woman's murder in Shimla - Feb 28, 2010
- IIT-Kharagpur welcomes budgetary grant - Feb 28, 2011
- War of words over Jairam Ramesh slamming IITs, IIMs (Lead) - May 24, 2011
- Health ministry opposes medicine courses in IITs - Apr 22, 2010
- Over 1,300 IIT teachers to go on hunger strike Thursday - Sep 21, 2009
- IIT student confesses to murder of woman in Shimla (Lead) - Feb 28, 2010
- HCL founder Shiv Nadar to head IIT-Kharagpur's board - Apr 07, 2011
Tags: apathy, chandra gupta, committee report, disaster, disparities, global brand, goverdhan mehta, hrd ministry, human resources development, iit bombay, iit delhi, iit kharagpur, iit madras, indian institutes of technology, institutes of technology, ministry of human resources, New Delhi, physics, professors, villain