A new provision present for IIT students

By Payal Dwivedi on August 23, 2016 at 11:14 AM

A new research scholarship purposed in the IIT council from next week, that under this scheme it selects 1,000 bright B.Tech students from Indian Institutes of Technologies and other premier engineering institutions. These students will be admitted straight into Ph.D programmes And in this programme, B.Tech students in the IITs will register for Ph.D immediately on completion of the undergraduate course.

‘A committee headed by former director of IIT Mumbai Anil Kakodkar recommended that third year students of IITs and NITs should be initiated into PhD programmes,’ an official said. There were also Sources said that ‘IITs will be asked if it is possible to get exceptional students into PhD immediately after BTech’. It would also be proposed that ‘BTech passouts from IITs who have job experience and are interested in research should be enrolled in PhD,’ they added.

According to TOI, the larger idea of this scheme is to solve the problem of faculty crunch in IITs. Though there are around 2,000 Ph.Ds coming out of IITs every year, the number faulty vacancies is high. The IITs are very selective when hiring teachers. The scheme can prove too attractive to bright students and improve quality of faculty at the IITs.