Recruitment criteria for NCERT director to be changed

              Unable to find suitable candidates, the government is set to modify the recruitment criteria for the post of director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).


            The premier educational body is currently headed by in-charge director Prof G Ravindra after the government failed to find a suitable candidate for the post.

           HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has favoured modification in the recruitment rules which state that a candidate needs to have at least ten years of experience as a professor, including five years of administrative experience.
            HRD Ministry had advertised for the post last year.

          Though it got 72 applications, 46 were not eligible as they did not have five years of administrative experience.

        The ministry has now written to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for relaxing the criteria of administrative experience.