The State Government has admitted that quite a large number of teaching posts in the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) Rourkela and Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Bulra are lying vacant and assured to fill them by end of 2016. To a question of BJP MlA Dilip Ray in this connection, Skill Development and Technical Education Minister Sanjay Dasburma informed that in the BPUT of the 55 sanctioned posts of Professors, 50 are vacant, of 144 sanctioned posts of Associate Professors, 107 posts are vacant and of 257 Assistant Professors, 109 posts are vacant.
Similarly, in the VSSUT, 24 posts of Professors are vacant of 54 sanctioned posts, 50 posts of Associate Professors are vacant of 95 sanctioned posts and 50 posts of Assistant Professors are vacant of 164 sanctioned posts.
Dasburma also informed that in the Skill Development and Technical Education Department, there are two universities such as BPUT and VSSUT, while under the BPUT there are five affiliated technical colleges. The Minister said that only VSSUT has got the NAAC accreditation, while both BPUT and VSSUT are not in the list of the best 100 universities in India recently graded by the Centre.
He further informed that there are 32 Government polytechnic and engineering schools and as many as 44 Government ITIs in the State. The Minister also stated that in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang in Dhenkanal district, there are 152 sanctioned teaching posts, while 70 of them are lying vacant. Similarly, 13 non teaching posts are vacant in the IGIT.