IIT faculty fasts for a day to protest low pay, ‘micro-management’
Most of the 1,500-odd faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), who observed a day-long fast to express their dissatisfaction with the modified notification of the Union Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), reiterated that their protests were not just over pay increases but the ministry’s attempt “to micro-manage the IITs”.
