{"id":28187,"date":"2018-10-24T11:13:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28187"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:43:50","slug":"faculty-numbers-dip-2-34-lakh-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/faculty-numbers-dip-2-34-lakh-in-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty numbers dip 2.34 lakh in 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/faculty-numbers-dip-234-lakh-in-3-years\/article24536263.ece\">Faculty numbers dip 2.34 lakh in 3 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>According to the All India Survey on Higher Education Report 2017-18,\u00a0 total number of faculty members in higher educational institutions in India has come down.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23578 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cayse.jpg?resize=531%2C344\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cayse.jpg?w=531&amp;ssl=1 531w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cayse.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cayse.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The All India Survey on Higher Education Report 2017-18 pointed out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total number of teachers in higher education institutions in India has come down by about 2.34 lakh in the last three years.<\/li>\n<li>As per the figures, total number of teachers stood as:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>In 2017-18: 12.84 lakh<\/li>\n<li>In 2016-17: 13.65 lakh<\/li>\n<li>In 2015-16: 15.18 lakh<\/li>\n<li>Between 2011-12 and 2015-16, the number has been rising from 12.47 lakh to 15. 18 lakh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>3. Reasons \u00a0for decline in teachers numbers:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Retiring professors are not being replaced.<\/li>\n<li>Sanctioned post not being filled in State universities.<\/li>\n<li>In Central universities, these posts are not being filled by the universities despite availability of sanctioned posts and funds.<\/li>\n<li>As per the 2017-18 figures, the teachers who provided their Aadhaar numbers were shown as teachers from this year on wards.<\/li>\n<li>In this context, the MoHRD said \u201coccurring and filling up of vacancies is a continuous process. Universities being autonomous institutions, the onus of filling up vacant teaching posts lies with them\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty numbers dip 2.34 lakh in 3 years News: According to the All India Survey on Higher Education Report 2017-18,\u00a0 total number of faculty members in higher educational institutions in India has come down. \u00a0 Important facts: 2. The All India Survey on Higher Education Report 2017-18 pointed out: Total number of teachers in higher&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/faculty-numbers-dip-2-34-lakh-in-3-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faculty numbers dip 2.34 lakh in 3 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904686},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}