More than half of the faculty posts reserved for OBCs are vacant in central institutions of higher education, while around 40% reserved for scheduled castes and tribes are also incomplete, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank told the Lok Sabha in a written reply to Congress on Monday. Question from three MPs.
The situation is particularly grim in elite Indian management institutes, where more than 60% of SC and OBC posts reserved are vacant, while around 80% of posts reserved for STs have not been filled. This means that only five of the 24 posts reserved for STs have been filled. For Indian Institutes of Technology, data is provided for non-faculty positions only. Both IITs and IIMs are lobbying for exemption from such faculty quota requirements.
Congress MP N. In response to another question by Uttam Kumar Reddy, Mr. Nishank said that there are more vacancies at the level of professors in central universities. More than 500 of the 709 Assistant Professor posts reserved for STs have been filled in 42 universities. However, when it comes to professors, only nine of the 137 positions reserved for ST candidates have been filled. This means that 93% of these positions are incomplete. One percent of the 1,062 professors at central universities are from ST communities.
Similarly, 64% of the 2,206 assistant professor positions reserved for OBCs have been filled in central universities. However, less than 5% of the 378 professor posts reserved for OBCs have been filled.
Despite the high level of vacancies, it was claimed in the written reply to Mr. Nishank’s first question that, “Now,” after the implementation of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in the Cadre of Teachers) Act, 2019, OBC reservation has been implemented. Level. “
In the second response, he noted that the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission (UGC) constantly monitor the vacancies, but place the final blame on the universities. “However, the credit for filling teaching posts rests with the Central Universities which are autonomous bodies under the Acts of Parliament.”
In fact, in June 2019, the UGC wrote to all universities, giving them a six-month deadline to fill their vacancies and warned that the grant would be withheld if its instructions were violated. According to the data presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday, 42 universities now have 6,074 vacancies, of which 75% are in reserved categories.
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