{"id":31576,"date":"2018-10-27T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31576"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T09:17:19","slug":"graduates-from-iit-nit-to-teach-in-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/graduates-from-iit-nit-to-teach-in-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduates from IIT, NIT to teach in rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/graduates-from-iit-nit-to-teach-in-rural-areas\/article22612394.ece\">Graduates from IIT, NIT to teach in rural areas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0education<\/p>\n<p><strong>The teachers will be there on a three-year contract and get paid \u20b970,000 a month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Human Resource Development Minister told reporters on Wednesday that these teachers had already joined the colleges<\/li>\n<li>The teachers will be there on a three-year contract and get paid \u20b970,000 a month.<\/li>\n<li>Later, they can either choose to stay in academics or join the corporate world.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative, entailing an expenditure of \u20b9370 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The focus is on states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and the Andaman and the Nicobar Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/graduates-from-iit-nit-to-teach-in-rural-areas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graduates from IIT, NIT to teach in rural areas<\/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-31576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704582285},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31576","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=31576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}