New Delhi: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has made it clear that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras will not be renamed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Chennai.
“Any proposal for amending the name of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras is not under consideration of the government,” the education minister said in reply to a query in the Lok Sabha’s monsoon session on Tuesday, July 27.
As an instance, Bombay was rechristened as Mumbai but the IIT there continues to be called IIT-Bombay, which was established in 1958. This was followed by the establishment of IITs in Madras (1959), Kanpur (1959), and Delhi (1961).
While replying to the query, Pradhan said that teachers should be appointed on a contract basis and the number of such appointments should not exceed 10 per cent of the total number of faculty positions in a college or university, reported ABP Education.
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