Faculty Salaries at IITs and IISc
Here is a balanced summary of the salary issue on Giridhar’s blog.
I think the only thing flawed in the “ruling” is the On Contract Assistant Professor (OCAP) position. I joined IIT-M after a 2.5 year post doc at Delaware. I did a longer post-doc because I had the offer from IIT an year before I actually joined: Often people do 1-2 year in engineering disciplines. This means that I would have to join IIT-M not as a full AP but an OCAP. There is no way I would have returned in 2007. A couple of my friends thinking of returning are not sure (”not sure” = “confused” or “wait-and-watch”, not “won’t return”) any more due to the OCAP.
Having said that, there are ways in which IITs can do to blunt the effect of OCAP. We just need to put our collective heads together and find a way out. Of course, rather than fighting for a marginal pay rise, we could work with the minister to make the wording more flexible… so that we can hire folks as full APs as well.
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