Sept. 2: Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday held talks with IIT directors and assured them that the government would look into their demand for added incentives positively. The government move is expected to end the faculty protest they are expected to return to work. The IIT directors have also assured the minister that they will work to resolve the issue.
Official sources stated that the HRD minister has promised the IIT directors that their demands would be looked into properly. "IIT directors have also assured the government of their full cooperation on the issue," sources added.
Speaking after the meeting, IIT Kanpur director Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande stated that the meeting was held in an amicable environment and the government had assured them of looking into the faculty’s demands. "We are satisfied with the minister’s response and he has assured us that the matter will be resolved at the earliest," Prof. Dhande stated.
Faculty members had alleged that the new pay structure, notified by the ministry, sets annual increments at scales lower than those prescribed by the central pay panel under former Indian Institute of science director Goverdhan Mehta. The Central panel had proposed better incentives for IIT and IIM faculties to counter better salaries offered by industry and foreign universities in an effort to stop the brain drain from these top institutes.
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