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Yet, a third of teaching posts are vacant in India’s central universities, no Indian university–India has 36.6 million university students–finds a place in the global top 100 and the highest rank achieved this year was 420 by Indian Institute of Science, a five-year low.  
 

Global Rankings Of Indian Universities, 2018-19
World Rank Institution National Rank
420 Indian Institute of Science 1
519 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 2
615 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 3
651 Indian Institute of Technology Madras 4
671 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 5
676 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 6
726 University of Delhi 7
732 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi 8
761 Jadavpur University 9
774 Banaras Hindu University 10

Source: Centre for World University Rankings
 
The rankings of Indian universities have steadily declined over four years to 2018. In 2014, the highest rank an Indian university reached was 328, in 2015 it was 341, in 2016, it dropped to 354 and in 2017, it was 397.
 

Highest Rank For An Indian University (World Wide)
Year Institution Rank
2018-19 Indian Institute of Science 420
2017 University of Delhi 397
2016 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 354
2015 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 341
2014 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 328

Source: Centre for World University Rankings
 
These ranks primarily focus on the quantity and quality of research papers–55% of the weightage–how many appear in top-tier or influential journals and how many are cited by other researchers.
 
Professors play a leading role in conducting academic research, apart from teaching duties. But India is short of professors, with 5,606 posts vacant in central universities, a shortfall of 33%, Satya Pal Singh, minister of state, ministry of human resources development (HRD) told the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house) on July 23, 2018. At the flagship Indian Institutes of Technology, 2,802 (34%) teaching posts are vacant.
 

 
Vacancies affect quality of teaching, research
 
Vacancies have been affecting the quality of teaching and research, professors told IndiaSpend. “For the last 15-20 years, universities have been neglected,” said Laxmi Narayan, a sociology professor from the University of Hyderabad. “There have been no teacher recruitments. A majority of the posts are vacant. When there are no teachers in the university, the quality of education will be low.”
 
Permanent teachers have the “time and responsibility” for research since they are not concerned with job security, Narayan said. But “nowadays, the entire system is made up of contract teachers”.
 
Professors who do not have a permanent job–called “ad hocs”–find themselves on a contract that can range from four months to a year. “Recruitments have not taken place for a number of years now,” a Delhi University professor told IndiaSpend on condition of anonymity. “A lot of teachers have been working as ad hocs. The ministry has not given a nod to the recruitment process. Even if the recruitments don’t take place, the teaching has to go on. So a huge number of ad hoc teachers are hired, who don’t have a sense of belonging to the institution.”
 
The government said recruitment is controlled by universities, and the ministry and Universities Grants Commission only monitor the process. “Occurring and filling up of vacancies is a continuous process,” India’s HRD minister Prakash Javadekar told the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house) on July 23, 2018. “Universities being autonomous institutions, the onus of filling up of vacant teaching posts lies with them.”
 
“Universities are empowered to take a decision to engage contract faculty, if the recruitment is delayed due to court cases or such other contingencies,” R. Subrahmanyam, secretary of higher education in the HRD ministry, told IndiaSpend over email.
 
The question of money
 
Funding appears to be a key issue in filling vacant teaching posts.
 
“The government says they don’t have enough money to recruit professors,” said Narayan. “So, instead of hiring one permanent teacher, which costs around Rs 100,000 to Rs 150,000, the universities hire three to four contract teachers.”
 
Western nations typically spend a greater proportion of their budget on higher education and a higher proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) on education, as the chart below indicates.
 

 
India spent 4.13% of its GDP on education in 2014, according to HRD Ministry data. This is lower than the UK, US and South Africa–countries that spent 5.68%, 5.22% and 6.05% respectively, of GDP on education. Fifty one of the top 100 universities in 2018-19 were from the US and eight from the UK.
 
The Indian government does plan to increase higher-education funding, with an increased focus on research. “Government has embarked on improving the funding for research, among other measures, to make the universities more competitive at (the) global level,” said higher-education secretary Subrahmanyam.
 
(Shreya Raman is a data analyst with IndiaSpend.)

Courtesy: India Spend
 

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In a strong and cogent statement issued to challenge the aggressive campaign by Facebook in promoting its ‘Free Basics’ proposal, over 100 IIT and IISC professors have challenged the ‘lethal combination’ that threatens to control usage, dictate costs and access personal information of millions of Indians, that too by an entity based on foreign soil

 
The statement rejects Facebook’s misleading and flawed ‘Free Basics’ proposal
 
Allowing a private entity

  • to define for Indian Internet users what is ‘basic’,
  • to control what content costs how much, and
  • to have access to the personal content created and used by millions of Indians

is a lethal combination which will lead to total lack of freedom on how Indians can use their own public utility, the Internet.  Facebook’s ‘free basics’ proposal is such a lethal combination, having several deep flaws, beneath the veil of altruism wrapped around it in TV and other media advertisements, as detailed below.
 

Flaw 1:   Facebook defines what is ‘basic’.
The first obvious flaw in the proposal is that Facebook assumes control of defining what a ‘basic’ service is.  They have in fact set up an interface for services to ‘submit’ themselves to Facebook for approval to be a ‘basic’ service.  This means: what the ‘basic’ digital services Indians will access using their own air waves will be decided (if the proposal goes through) by a private corporation, and that too one based on foreign soil.  The sheer absurdity of this (on political, legal, and moral grounds), is obvious.

To draw an analogy, suppose a chocolate company wishes to provide ‘free basic food’ for all Indians, but retains control of what constitutes ‘basic’ food — this would clearly be absurd.  Further, if the same company defines its own brand of ‘toffee’ as a ‘basic’ food, it would be doubly absurd and its motives highly questionable.  While the Internet is not as essential as food, that the Internet is a public utility touching the lives of rich and poor alike cannot be denied.  
 

What Facebook is proposing to do with this public utility is no different from the hypothetical chocolate company.  In fact, it has defined itself to be the first ‘basic’ service, as evident from Reliance’s ads on Free Facebook.  Now, it will require quite a stretch of imagination to classify Facebook as ‘basic’. This is why Facebook’s own ad script writers have prompted Mr. Zuckerberg to instead make emotional appeals of education and healthcare for the poor Indian masses; these appeals are misleading, to say the least.
Flaw 2: Facebook will have access to all your apps’ contents.
The second major flaw in the model, is that Facebook would be able to decrypt the contents of the ‘basic’ apps on its servers.  This flaw is not visible to the lay person as it’s a technical detail, but it has deep and disturbing implications.  Since Facebook can access un-encrypted contents of users’ ‘basic’ services, either we get to consider health apps to be not basic, or risk revealing health records of all Indians to Facebook.  Either we get to consider our banking apps to be not ‘basic’, or risk exposing the financial information of all Indians to Facebook.   And so on.  This is mind boggling even under normal circumstances, and even more so considering the recent internal and international snooping activities by the NSA in the US.

Flaw 3: It’s not free.
The third flaw is that the term ‘free’ in ‘free basics’ is a marketing gimmick.  If you see an ad which says ‘buy a bottle of hair oil, get a comb free’, you know that the cost of the comb is added somewhere.  If something comes for free, its cost has to appear somewhere else.  Telecom operators will have to recover the cost of ‘free basic’ apps from the non-free services (otherwise, why not make everything free?).  So effectively, whatever Facebook does not consider ‘basic’ will cost more.

If Facebook gets to decide what costs how much, in effect Indians will be surrendering their digital freedom, and freedom in the digital economy, to Facebook.  So this is not an issue of elite Indians able to pay for the Internet versus poor Indians, as Facebook is trying to portray.  It is an issue of whether all Indians want to surrender their digital freedom to Facebook.

That the ‘Free Basics’ proposal is flawed as above is alarming but not surprising, for it violates one of the core architectural principles of Internet design: net neutrality.  Compromising net neutrality, an important design principle of the Internet, would invariably lead to deep consequences on people’s freedom to access and use information.  We therefore urge that the TRAI should support net neutrality in its strongest form, and thoroughly reject Facebook’s ‘free basics’ proposal.

 
Signed by:

  1. Krithi Ramamritham, Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  2. Bhaskaran Raman, Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  3. Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  4. Ashwin Gumaste, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  5. Kameswari Chebrolu, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  6. Uday Khedker, Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  7. Madhu N. Belur, Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  8. Mukul Chandorkar, Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  9. Amitabha Bagchi, Associate Professor, CS&E, IIT Delhi
  10. Vinay Ribeiro, Associate Professor, CS&E, IIT Delhi
  11. Niloy Ganguly, Professor, CS&E, IIT Kharagpur
  12. Animesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  13. Animesh Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  14. Subhashis Banerjee, Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
  15. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  16. Saswat Chakrabarti, Professor, GSSST, IIT Kharagpur
  17. H.Narayanan, Professor, EE, I.I.T Bombay
  18. Vinayak Naik, Associate Professor, CSE, IIIT-Delhi
  19. Aurobinda Routray, Professor, EE, IIT Kharagpur
  20. Naveen Garg, Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
  21. Amarjeet Singh, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIIT-Delhi
  22. Purushottam Kulkarni, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  23. Supratik Chakraborty, Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  24. Kavi Arya, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  25. S. Akshay, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  26. Jyoti Sinha, Visiting Faculty, Robotics, IIIT Delhi
  27. Joydeep Chandra, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Patna
  28. Parag Chaudhuri, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  29. Rajiv Raman, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIIT-Delhi
  30. Mayank Vatsa, Associate Professor, CSE, IIIT-Delhi
  31. Anirban Mukherjee, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Kharagpur
  32. Pushpendra Singh, Associate Professor, CSE, IIIT-Delhi
  33. Partha Pratim Das, Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  34. Dheeraj Sanghi, Professor, CSE, IIIT Delhi
  35. Karabi Biswas, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Kharagpur
  36. Bikash Kumar Dey, Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  37. Mohammad Hashmi, Assistant Professor, ECE, IIIT Delhi
  38. Venu Madhav Govindu, Assistant Professor, EE, IISc Bengaluru
  39. Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Assistant Professor, CSA, IISc Bangalore
  40. Sridhar Iyer, Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  41. Sujay Deb, Assistant Professor, ECE, IIIT Delhi
  42. Virendra Sule, Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  43. Om Damani, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  44. V Rajbabu, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  45. Hema Murthy, Professor, CSE, IIT Madras
  46. Anupam Basu, Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  47. Sriram Srinivasan, Adjunct Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  48. K.V.S. Hari, Professor, ECE, IISc, Bengaluru
  49. Shalabh Gupta, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  50. Suman Kumar Maji, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Patna
  51. Udayan Ganguly, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  52. Rahul Banerjee, Professor, CSE, BITS Pilani
  53. R K. Shevgaonkar, Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  54. S.C. Gupta, Visiting Faculty, CSE, IIT Delhi
  55. Ashutosh Gupta, Reader, STCS, TIFR
  56. V Krishna Nandivada, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Madras
  57. Ashutosh Trivedi, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  58. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  59. Amit Patra, Professor, EE, IIT Kharagpur
  60. Jayalal Sarma, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Madras
  61. Rajesh Sundaresan, Associate Professor, ECE, IISc Bangalore
  62. Deepak Khemani, Professor, CSE, IIT Madras
  63. Vinod Prabhakaran, Reader, TCS, TIFR
  64. Saroj Kaushik, Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
  65. Kumar Appaiah, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  66. Bijendra N Jain, Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
  67. Aaditeshwar Seth, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Delhi
  68. Nupur Dasgupta, Jadavpur University
  69. C.Chandra Sekhar, Professor, CSE, IIT Madras
  70. Pralay Mitra, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  71. Krishna Jagannathan, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Madras
  72. Venkatesh Tamarapalli, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Guwahati
  73. Ajit Rajwade, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  74. D. Manjunath, Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  75. Subhasis Chaudhuri, EE, IIT Bombay
  76. S. Arun-Kumar, Professor, CS&E, IIT Delhi
  77. Alka Hingorani, Associate Professor, IIT Bombay
  78. Swaroop Ganguly, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  79. Shishir K. Jha, Associate Professor, SJMSOM, IIT Bombay
  80. Sabyasachi SenGupta, Professor, EE, IIT Kharagpur
  81. Mythili Vutukuru, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  82. Harish Karnick, Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur.
  83. Piyush Rai, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  84. Jayakrishnan Nair, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  85. T.V.Prabhakar, Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  86. Nitin Saxena, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur.
  87. Sundar Viswanathan, Professor, CSE, IIT Bombay
  88. Sushobhan Avasthi, Assistant Professor, CeNSE, IISc Bangalore
  89. Sumit Darak, Assistant Professor, IIIT Delhi
  90. Ajai Jain, Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  91. Indranil Saha, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  92. Dipankar Sinha, ISI, Kolkata
  93. Purushottam Kar, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  94. Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  95. Surender Baswana, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  96. Soumyadip Bandyopadhayay, Visiting Faculty, CSE, BITS-Pilani Goa
  97. Rogers Mathew, Asst. Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
  98. Samit Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Guwahati
  99. Richa Singh, Associate Professor, CSE, IIIT Delhi
  100. Raghavendra Rao B. V., Assistant Professor, IIT Madras.
  101. Chandrashekar C.M., Assistant Professor, Theoretical Physics, IMSc Chennai.
  102. Aditya Gopalan, Assistant Professor, ECE, IISc
  103. Ritwik Kumar Layek, Assistant Professor, ECE, IIT Kharagpur
  104. Madhavan Mukund, Professor, Chennai Mathematical Institute
  105. Piyush P Kurur, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  106. Debajyoti Bera, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIIT-Delhi
  107. Sudebkumar P Pal, Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  108. Rajat Mittal, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  109. Sandip Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  110. R. K. Ghosh, CSE, IIT Kanpur
  111. Anuradha Sharma, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, IIT Delhi
  112. Kannan Moudgalya, Professor, IIT Bombay
  113. Saurabh Lodha, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  114. Ashutosh Mahajan, Assistant Professor, IEOR, IIT Bombay
  115. S. C. Patel, Professor, IIT Bombay
  116. P Sunthar, Associate Professor, Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay
  117. Ateeque Malani, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engg, IIT Bombay
  118. J. K. Verma, Professor, IIT Bombay
  119. Rajendra M Sonar, Associate Professor, IIT Bombay
  120. Ramkrishna Pasumarthy, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Madras
  121. Dipan K. Ghosh, Professor (Retd.) IIT Bombay
  122. Vinish Kathuria, Professor, SJMSOM, IIT Bombay
  123. Anirban Sain, Professor, Physics, IIT Bombay
  124. S P Sukhatme, Professor Emeritus, Mech Engg, IIT Bombay
  125. Ravi N Banavar, Professor, Systems and Control Engg, IIT Bombay
  126. Shyam Karagadde, Assistant Professor, Mech Engg, IIT Bombay
  127. Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, CSE, IIT Kharagpur
  128. Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Associate Professor, EE, IIT Bombay
  129. Ravi Raghunathan, Associate Professor, Mathematics, IIT Bombay
  130. Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju, Professor, CSRE, IIT Bombay
  131. T T Niranjan, Assistant Professor, SJMSOM, IIT Bombay
  132. Anurag Mittal, Associate Professor, CSE, IIT Madras
  133. A.K. Suresh, Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  134. Rowena Robinson, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
  135. Urjit Yajnik, Professor, Physics Department, IIT Bombay
  136. Bharat Seth, ex-Professor, ME, IIT Bombay
  137. Himanshu Bahirat, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Bombay

Source: Reddit
*Parenthesis added
 

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