Tapping best talents for premier institutes a problem: PM

New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) As the country embarked upon
setting up new IITs, IIMs and Central universities, Prime
Minister of India Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said attracting
best talents for these premier institutions remains a problem.

"We must find ways of attracting the best talents as
faculty in our premier institutions. We today face difficulty
in finding top level professors and lecturers in the newly
created IITs, IISERs and other such institutions," he said.
Addressing the National Education Day function here to
commemorate the birth anniversary Maulana Abul Kalam Azad,
independent India's first education minister, Singh said,
"this state of affairs cannot be allowed to prevail".
The government has started major expansion of higher
education by opening eight new IITs and 15 Central
universities.
It has also been decided to set up six IIMs, 10 NITs, 20
IIITs and 6,000 model schools during the 11th Plan (2007-12).
Observing that efforts should be made to find ways to
improve the quality of teachers, the Prime Minister asked the
academics and planners to address this problem of deficiency
in the quality of teaching in schools, colleges and
universities.
Singh also said the country needed an additional ten lakh
teachers to implement the Right To Education Act, which seeks
to provide free and compulsory education in the 6-14 age
group. (More) PTI BKM
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