Managing Faculty Demand in Technical Education: A Supply Chain Model for IITs

Providing education to the masses is extremely important for any nation as it has a direct effect on the development of the country. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the demand supply gap with respect to faculty requirement with particular reference to the IITs. The government's proposal to set up eight additional premier institutes for technical education (IITs) in India will widen the demand supply gap for faculty among these...