Ad Hoc Roles to Fill IIT Big Shoes Amid Leadership Gaps in Higher Education
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 27 December 2025 | The Telegraph
Appointment delays and ad hoc arrangements in key positions at top higher educational institutions and policy-making organisations under the education ministry have become routine. Last month, the government got the approval of the Visitor, the President of India, to extend the tenure of chairpersons of IIT BHU (Varanasi), IIT Dhanbad, IIT Guwahati, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Palakkad and IIT Jammu. The chairpersons of these institutions had completed their terms.
The ministry also gave additional charge of chairpersons of IIT Goa, IIT Roorkee and IIT Patna to the incumbent chairpersons of IIT Ropar, IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur, respectively. The government was supposed to appoint regular chairpersons in these IITs. The ad hoc arrangement in these nine IITs will continue till the last week of May 2026…