IIT AND KOTA

Most discussions on IIT’s best institutions end up on a war-like situation with no concrete conclusion. And irrespective of this fact, we’ve decided to take things on our own hands on the issue one more time, albeit with all safety precautions in place. Of Pride and Prejudices—IIT-Delhi V/S IIT-Bombay The two engineering institutions that will battle for supremacy in our discussion today are IIT-Delhi and IIT-Bombay. We will review their basic key features and find out the better of the two without any discrimination or favoritism. So, let’s go through it one by one: Highest Pay Package IIT-Bombay was offered the highest package of Rs 80,000 lakh p.a. by Samsung US/Korea for the academic year 2013-2014, which is about 1, 50,000 p.a. in US Dollars. Although placement coordinators of the institution refused to divulge details on pay packages, one of our sources revealed that the pay package offered by Samsung US/Korea is more than 30% hike as speculated by the authority of ...

Foreign faculty members engaged with some of the IITs have complained of harassment and delays in the police verification and visa registration processes they have to undergo. Foreign faculty members engaged with some of the IITs have complained of harassment and delays in the police verification and visa registration processes they have to undergo. The issue, it is learnt, has reached the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). IIT Kanpur was the first to flag the issue to the Union HRD Ministry and raised the matter at the meeting of the IIT Council in September this year. The Pallam Raju-led ministry subsequently shot off a letter to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary to have the issue sorted out at the earliest. With most IITs working keenly on building their international profile and planning to host more and more foreign students and visitors for six months or even more, there is an increasing demand for a more streamlined registration process. Foreign visitors and students in...