The Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Resource Development made a statement correcting the reply given on 13.03.13 to Unstarred Question No. 2699 by Prof. (Dr.) Ranjan Prasad Yadav and other Members regarding shortage of faculty in NITs and IITs and giving reasons for delay in correcting the reply.

  THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SHASHI THAROOR): Madam Speaker,

I beg to make a Statement to correct the Annexure-II referred in part (d) of the reply given, in respect of details of sanctioned strength and in –position of Teaching Staff in IITs and NITs, for the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2699 answered by the Ministry of Human Resource Development on 13.03.2013, which is as follows:

The corrected statement has been necessitated due to an inadvertent error in the Annexure –II referred to in reply to part (d)  of the Unstarred Question No. 2699 answered by the Ministry in Lok Sabha on 13^thMarch, 2013 concerning “ shortage of faculty in NITs and IITs”, which included detailed Institution-wise sanctioned strength of faculty, actual strength of faculty and vacancies. It has now come to the notice that the figure indicated for faculty in position in the table referred at Annexure-II in reply to point (d) of the question has inadvertently been indicated as zero in respect of IIT-Bhubaneshwar amongst IITs. Resultantly, whereas the figures, in reply to point (b) & (c) of the question, for total sanctioned faculty posts in respect of IITs (6076) is correct , the figures for actual strength of faculty and the vacancy position was interpreted as zero in the  absence of details of regular faculty in position in respect of IIT –Bhubaneshwar. After incorporating the details as indicated in para 1 above , the figure for vacancy in respect of IITs may please be read as 2545 in place of 2608.

The inconvenience  caused is regretted.