53% posts vacant in new central universities, 35% in IITs
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar informed the Parliament that new central universities are functioning with over 53% vacant posts, whereas IITs and NITs have 35% and 47% teacher vacancies, respectively. Javadekar further revealed that government plans to invite industry experts to fill up teaching vacancies and aims to fill up at least 75% vacant posts by the end of 2017.