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 ...

In the last few years, close to Rs 4 crore has been disbursed to 187 faculty members who have joined IIT Bombay as part of an initiative to attract the best talent. To help the institute sustain this scheme, the 1988 batch has decided to fund the initiative as part of its legacy project. The class of 1988, which is getting together on December 27 for its silver jubilee reunion, has pledged Rs 2.5 crore towards the legacy project. Under the "new faculty sign-on bonuses", started few years ago, a joining bonus of Rs 4 lakh is given to every new member hired at IIT Bombay over four years. According to figures by the IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA), Rs 3.95 crore has been disbursed so far to 187 newly joined faculty members. "Taking into account the competition from other IITs and the eroding value of money due to inflation, this project has given a distinctive edge to IIT Bombay in its recruitment process and has helped hire top-notch young faculty. Former ...

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...

"Sir, since I joined in 2009, every year there has been a suicide. As a student I have the right to know about IIT-M's actions to prevent such unfortunate incidents. And even after the introduction of MITR (a guidance and counselling system), the story is same," reads a mail sent by a student of IIT-Madras after institute dean (students) L S Ganesh posted a condolence message following the suicide of a first year student on Friday. The suicide of 18-year-old Akshay Kumar Meena, a student of chemical engineering student, is the eighth at IIT-M in the last four years. The dean dismissed fears of any inadequacy in the suicide preventive measures taken by the administration, but a large number of students and faculty remain agitated with the response. Besides academic stress, say some faculty members, the increasing population on the campus, from 3,000 in 1980 to 8,000 this year, and a mix of students from different social strata should be seen as trends leading to...

Joint Entrance Exam- JEE (Advanced) 2013 results got declared earlier than expected, on Friday, June 21, 2013. The exam was conducted on June 2. Pallerla Sai Sandeep Reddy, a student of Sri Chaitanya Narayana IIT Academy, Andhra Pradesh bagged the All India first rank. The same guy has also topped EAMCET engineering stream whose result was declared on June 5, 2013. Interestingly, P Sai Sandeep's classmate from the same coaching institute has secured All India Rank 2 at JEE Advanced. And with just one mark separating the ranks, we have the third topper. Here’s what all the three Toppers told shiksha correspondent Madiha Jawed about JEE, their preparation strategy and IIT plans! How does it feel being the JEE Advanced 2013 topper? P Sai Sandeep Reddy,JEE Advanced 2013 Topper I am delighted. I have been preparing for this for the last 5 to 6 years i.e. since class 7. However, I wasn’t that serious till class 10, but picked up momentum after 10 th . And yes, of co...

A study done by a private firm has ranked IIT-Madras as the leader in faculty awards for rese­arch activities. Zinnov, a globalisation and market expansion advisory firm, on Friday released its latest study titled “Top research faculty in tier-1 engineering institutions in India”. According to the study, IIT-Madras emerged as the overall leader in bagging top awards for its faculty research with about 15 coveted achievements and awards like IEEE fellowship and Bhatnagar awards; over 60 international awards and fellowships including Humboldt fellowship, grants from multi national companies; and more than 40 national awards and fellowships. This study includes a detailed assessment of faculty in India’s tier-I engineering institutions and also identified top faculty by their areas of research. The Indian Institute of Science (IIS­C), followed by IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Delhi, emerged as the top institutes for faculty rese­arch competence in India. The faculty in these institutes h...