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Graduates from IIT, NIT to teach in rural areas
Context
More than 1,200 youngsters with Ph.D and M. Tech degrees from institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and National Institutes of Technology will spend the next three years teaching at 53 government engineering colleges in rural areas of districts lagging behind in technical education
The teachers will be there on a three-year contract and get paid ₹70,000 a month.
- Human Resource Development Minister told reporters on Wednesday that these teachers had already joined the colleges
- The teachers will be there on a three-year contract and get paid ₹70,000 a month.
- Later, they can either choose to stay in academics or join the corporate world.
- This initiative, entailing an expenditure of ₹370 crore, is a result of the Centre helping state governments fill up vacancies in backward districts in 11 states where engineering students were suffering because of dearth of teachers.
Focus States
The focus is on states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and the Andaman and the Nicobar Islands.
