Human Resource Department

At a budget of over Rs 370 crore, this initiative by the Centre is aimed to help state governments fill up vacancies in backward districts in 11 states where engineering students were suffering because of a shortage of teachers

The HRD ministry’s mandatory Aadhaar disclosure during the All India Survey on Higher Education 2016-17 (AISHE) report released on Friday revealed that there are over 80,000 teachers who are faculty members of three or more higher education institutions in the country.

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