Some numbers related to IIT Kharagpur : a reference point to NISER
September 12th, 2007
Update on April 14, 2008: IIM Kozhikode has a faculty of 17 against the sanctioned strength of 40 members, IIM Calcutta has 70 against a sanctioned strength of 88; IIM Bangalore has 74 as against the sanctioned strength of 89.
Update on Oct 16, 2007: IIT Delhi has a sanctioned faculty of 583, with 130 vacancies.
Update on Oct 2, 2007: IIT Bombay has a faculty strength of 420, with 100 vacancies.
Frontline has a nice article on IIT Kharagpur. Following are some excerpts.
it has 19 departments, eight multidisciplinary centres and schools and 13 schools of excellence besides laboratories and central research facilities. It employs 1,600 employees, including 460 faculty members, and has 7,000 students on a sprawling, green campus of over 2,100 acres…
In comparison, according to various reports NISER (New Indian Express, Kalinga Times) would have 250 faculty, 2000 students, 761 employees and will be built in 300 acres with a project cost of 823.19 crores. Thus, in terms of faculty size and employee size it is envisaged to be about half the size of IIT Kharagpur.
Some information on IISER as was given in a recent PIB is as follows:
The Government of India has set up three Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), at Pune, Kolkata and Mohali. Two more IISERs are being set up at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram. These Institutes have been/are being set up on th3 recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM). The total estimated project cost of each IISER is Rs. 500.00 crores which includes Rs. 241.00 crores fro construction of building and other infrastructural facilities and Rs. 259.00 crores as recurring expenditure, spread over a period of 7 years.
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1. Bipin Bisoyi | September 12th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
300 acres of land allotted to NISER is no doubt very less compared to 2100 acres of IITKGP. But let’s consider this. IITDelhi has just 320 acres. IISc Bangalore started off with 346 acres (of course now it has 447 acres).
So a comparable institute could be built with 300 acres of the land.
2. Chitta Baral | September 13th, 2007 at 2:16 am
I hope they design the whole thing with room for future expansion. If they use all the 300 acres with the current numbers in mind, then they won’t have room to expand in the future.