MHRD recruits 1,200 IIT, NIT students to teach in rural colleges

The government didn't elaborate its plan of employing these students upon completion of their three-year contract

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has hired fresh pass-outs from premier institutes, such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), to fill vacant posts of about 1,225 assistant professors in 53 government engineering colleges in 11 backwards states.

The students, 293 PhD and 932 MTech scholars, have already joined the engineering colleges as contractual staff on a monthly salary of Rs 70,000. Their salaries, however, would be paid through a World Bank-aided project for improving quality of engineering graduates in states such as Bihar, Jharkhand,