'Eminence' tag to give institutes freedom in recruitment of faculty members

A fee hike may not be on the cards, at least in the immediate future

The HRD ministry's decision to give six institutes the status of 'Institutions of Eminence' on Tuesday will allow them them freedom to recruit more faculty, say experts. This is a crucial parameters that has contributed to India's low representation in the global rankings. 

The Association of Indian Universities (AIU) estimates India's average faculty-student ratio for higher educational institutions at around 1:27. Delhi University, which gets ranked in the 601-800 band in global rankings such as that of Times Higher Education (THE), has a ratio in upwards of 20 students for each faculty. Usually, institutes with higher ranking have a faculty-student ratio