New Delhi, May 21: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today sought to dispel fears about IIT faculties joining foreign institutes after they set shop here, saying the teachers are “patriotic” enough not to sell their conscience for a little bit of money.
“Had it been the case, IIT teachers would have been picked up by the elite Stanford and Harvard university even today. But none have gone,” Sibal said at an international education seminar here.
The attrition rate in IITs is “zero”, he said.
“This is because the opportunities and benefits available in IITs cannot be matched anywhere else,” Sibal said to a question that the foreign institutions may offer fat packages and poach faculty from IITs and IIMs.
“I know my faculty is patriotic and passionate about India and I know my faculty will not sell their conscience for a little bit of money,” he asserted.
–PTI