Dhaka: An Indian parliamentary committee has expressed doubt over the quality of PhD holders of the country and sought an evaluation report on why suitable candidates were hard to find for vacant teaching posts, reports PTI on Sunday.

The news agency report says with over 7,000 research scholars being awarded PhD every year, the panel has suggested ‘reorienting’ the entire system of evaluation of PhD and other research scholars.

In its report submitted in Indian Parliament last week, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development (HRD) stressed on increasing the number of research fellowships and new schemes for teaching assistantship, taking into account the shortage of teaching faculty in higher educational institutes.

Drawing attention to the quality aspect of Ph.D holders, the committee said they were rolling out of Indian universities like dime a dozen.