As the IIT professors resorted to the unprecedented step of day-long hunger strike on Thursday over pay issue, HRD minister Kapil Sibal said he is open to have any kind of dialogue with them to discuss their demands but ruled out world class salaries due to lack of resources.
With the HRD Ministry and IIT faculty refusing to budge from their respective stand, the teachers of prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology are on a hunger strike on Thursday for the first time on the issue of pay structure.