IITs: Hungry kya.??

Couldn't blog because of exams, blogging now as am bored with these exams!

The Newspapers seem to be having a nice time in this pre-season part of the year with the IITian professors going on a hunger strike to get their pays corrected! Pay? IITian professor? worry? hunger strike? seems absolutely preposterous.
A guy on tweeter said that the govt should not throw peanuts, as they would only end up attracting monkeys. I don't understand why these IITian professors are acting like monkeys by refusing to eat?? And that too for a pay hike? These people should indeed be hungry for knowledge rather than money. IITs are known for the kind of knowledge they give, the researches they conduct successfully, The great Alumni, but now we have IITs on the front pages of newspapers for an issue regarding salaries!! Looks so odd, vague, bohemian, and of course ridiculous!
I read the complete news and it was then i came to know the extent to which these ingenious professors have become ingenuous. They want a 100% pay hike ( I've never seen or heard that happen ). The comparisons they show are that of a Harvard or an Oxford professor's salary with theirs. Sure, they get lesser salaries, no doubt, but i don't understand how these genius professors forgot that the Oxford and the Harvard Universities are the richest universities in the world! They create money for their own. They create a revenue worth millions!! Compared to that, IITs produce NIL!! And now they are on a HUNGER STRIKE for an increase in pay 100%!! No word better that ridiculous can be worth using here.
The IITs and the IIMs are independent, right, but still they are Govt colleges. And interestingly, they (professors)get a pay that is equivalent to a professor's pay at oxford(The professor there gets a salary tantamount with the Govt employee). Moreover, another demand the IITs make is regarding autonomy in selecting permanent teachers and professors. The norm they want is that a PhD who comes there for the job must be given the permanent contract right away (WHYY??). The norm currently used is that the new person must be given a three year temporary status after which if he is suitable be given the permanent job. What's the problem with that!!?? The first time i read this, i felt i had read it wrong, and the IITs demand must have been the second one. I was wrong. The second time i read with assurance and all i could say was "Ridiculous".
I have full respect for the IITs for the quality of education they provide, the students they have, the knowledge they possess. But i feel bad to say that they are acting no less than politicians who end up making stupid demands and follow even more stupid ways to achieve them. JAI HIND!