Sibal asks IITs to admit more girls

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - There will be no increase in the salary of the protesting Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) professors but many aspects of their row with the government was resolved after Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Friday promised "flexibility" in promotions and fresh appointments. "On Gandhi Jayanti, I want to give a good news to the nation.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Human Resource Minister today held a meeting with faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology and said all issues have been resolved. Sibal's initiative was aimed at ending the deadlock between IIT faculty and the Central Government.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The long standing row between the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the human resource development (HRD) ministry about autonomy and allied issues had been solved but within government norms, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said Friday, adding tht there will be no change in the salary structure of the IIT faculty. On Gandhi Jayanti, I want to give good news to the nation.

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal has agreed to meet agitating faculty members of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) on Friday. Sibal's move comes in a bid to end the stand-off between the government and agitating IIT faculty.

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal has agreed to meet a federation of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) teachers, who are protesting the government's rejection of their demand for pay parity with the scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). In reply to the IIT faculty's telegram seeking an appointment with Sibal, the minister had agreed to meet them Friday, a HRD ministry official said.

September 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Monday asked the Catholic clergy to help the government in shaping the three pillars of education - "expansion, inclusion and excellence". Inaugurating the five-day triennial national assembly of the Conference of Religious India (CRI) here in which more than 550 major superiors of about 360 Catholic religious orders are participating, Sibal said there was still a lot to be done for people's education.

September 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government would not interfere in the administration of the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal has assured the protesting IIT teachers, even as he sought to clarify some of their contentions. "The IIT system can (be) rest assured Kapil Sibal will not interfere," the minister told Karan Thapar in an interview telecast on the CNN-IBN Sunday night.

September 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In the backdrop of the row between the faculty of premier education institutes and the union ministry, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said here Saturday that education is neither about autonomy nor about flexibility, it's about taking the country forward. "Institutions demand more flexibility in their working and more autonomy from us.

September 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of teachers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a hunger strike Thursday after the government rejected their demand for a better pay package. M. Thenmozi, head of the IIT faculty federation, said they were on hunger strike as announced on Monday.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government must not dilute excellence and quality in the name of regulating the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), their faculty shot back Tuesday, hours after Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal asked them to refrain from protests. Don't dilute the structure of the IITs.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sabil Tuesday took a firm stand against the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) faculty's protest on pay and autonomy, and made it clear that government-funded institutes would be regulated and eligibility conditions would be imposed. "Systems, universities, especially when they are funded 100 percent, have to be regulated.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - In order to ensure that engineering seats don't fall vacant after the selection procedure is over, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and other leading engineering colleges have started "informal discussion" for initiating common counselling. The process of allotting students' seats is popularly known as counselling in engineering colleges.

August 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday called on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to create quality faculties in the field of technical education to match the growing demands. Speaking at the Convocation of IIT-Delhi, Sibal said despite growth in number of technical institutions, there had not been proportionate increase in quality graduates in the country.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after reinforcing job quota in faculty of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said the government is "committed" to reserving 25 percent seats in private schools for weaker sections. The minister said this during an interaction with officials of 30 private schools in the national capital, a ministry statement said.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - 10,035 students, including 1,048 girls have successfully cracked the IIT Joint Entrance Examination, results of which were announced here on Monday. Nearly four lakh students had appeared in the test held across the country on 13th April, from which Nitin Jain from the Delhi zone has topped the list.