Communications of the ACM
CSIR Ph.D. Not Good Enough for Some Indian NITs
Credit: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Several of India's National Institutes of Technology have reportedly not accepted candidates for faculty positions who do not have at least one of their degrees from a Centrally Funded Technical Institute (CFTI).
"This is unfair. I have completed my M.Tech. and Ph.D. from a CSIR [Council of Scientific and Industrial Research] institute," says Debarati Mukherjee, who applied for an Assistant Professor post at the Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology and several other NITs. "I pursued research hoping to become an academic someday. But that looks like a tough deal now," she says.
Research scholars from CSIR institutes have written a letter to the Ministry of Human Resource Development to challenge the practice. "Such criterion is against the democratic values of providing equal opportunities to all the candidates and is a clear case of Institutional Racism," the letter states. "Faculty recruitment should be based on comparative merit of individuals and their professional credentials not on the reputation of the institute."
Faculty recruitment norms of the SVNIT drafted in July 2019 say that at least one of the qualifying degrees from a CFTI "is mandatory".
The Research Scholars of India have written to the the director of the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research and to the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and the Director-General of CSIR requesting corrective action.
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