Teachers at premier institutes deserve to be paid better
When the professors of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) went on a fast to protest against poor salaries on Teacher’s Day (September 5), they thought they were displaying a flair for the symbolic. But, the irony was lost on the policy makers at the ministry of human resource development (HRD).
(This story appears in the 09 October, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)