Sibal asks IITs to create quality faculties in technology

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 - 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 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 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Around 2,000 teachers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) went on a hunger strike Thursday even as they took classes, attended seminars and toiled in labs after the government rejected their demand for better salaries. Our protest is a huge success.

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 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 21st, 2009 KHARAGPUR/NEW DELHI - Over 1,300 teachers of the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Monday decided to go on a hunger strike Thursday to protest the government's apathy towards their demand for a better pay package. "We will go on a hunger strike and stay hungry on Thursday to protest," M.

August 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - The entrance test result released by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) shows that students belonging to SC and ST category who even scored a mere 18 percent made it to the top technology institutes of the country. Though a minimum of 35 percent is essential to be promoted to a higher class under almost every Indian school board or university, but in IIT entrance the students who scored even 18percent made it to the top technology schools.

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.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The boy-girl student ratio in the undergraduate courses at the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may soon see a positive turn. Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday directed the IITs to admit more female students.

June 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - HRD Minister Kapil Sibal announced on Monday that the government has decided that it will not accept any further applications of aspiring deemed universities and would conduct a thorough review of the functioning of such universities. "The ministry will set up its own committee, which will visit the deemed universities.