‘No timeline to fill the 10 director positions or the 21 chairperson positions at the country’s top engineering institutions,’ Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan says in the Lok Sabha. An autonomous body under the Education Ministry is planning to set up two private school Boards for Vedic studies blended with modern subjects, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told the Lok Sabha on Monday, July 19, 2021. Asked about the “time limit” fixed for filling these vacant posts, the Minister only said that the nomination and selection of the heads of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology was a “continuous process”. “At present, eight posts of Chairman at IITs and 21 posts of Chairman at NITs are vacant. Further, five posts of Directors in IITs and five posts in NITs are vacant,” said the Minister.

Source: The Hindu July 20, 2021 04:18 UTC