more-in Government departments and institutions usually loathe to and slow in adapting to change and technology. But the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, practices what it teaches. It is using technology to ensure that it does not lose the best teaching talent available, not just in India, but globally. A local first In a first of its kind in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the institute, in its recent recruitment, made use of Skype to interview candidates abroad, who could not appear physically for the same. The candidates, most of them Ph.Ds or Post Doctoral Fellows (PDFs), had expressed their inability to attend the interview personally, and the institute, instead of letting them go, preferred the Skype route to assess them. “We are happy that of the 15 such people interviewed, four could make it to the final list. We didn’t want to lose such talent as we believe that good teachers make the best institutes,” said NIT-Warangal Director N.V. Ramana Rao. “Perhaps this is the first time that a government institute has taken the bold decision of using technology for conducting interviews,” Prof. Rao added. Interestingly, among the 74 first-time recruitees, a majority have Ph.Ds either from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), IITs, NITs, IIMs or reputed foreign institutions like Monash University, Australia; University of Quebec, Canada; University of Central Florida, U.S.A.; University of Sains, Malaysia; and Wichita State University, U.S.A. “The selected candidates will serve at least 30 to 35 years in the institution and that means, four to five generations are assured of quality education,” Prof. Rao explained. However, some vacancies have been withheld for want of qualified candidates who could match up to the demands of the institute. Unlike the recruitment tests in State universities that drag on for years due to legal tangles, the NIT completed the process in six months. Prof. Rao said a notification for filling up another 100 posts would be issued soon and that they hope to improve their position in the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) next year.

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