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Over 700 vacancies in varsities since March, but just 2.5% for SCs, 0 for STs -Shalini Nair

-The Indian Express

This data was revealed during inter-ministerial consultations for issuing an ordinance to overturn the circular and the court order that treats departments/ subjects as a unit for implementing reservation, instead of taking the university/ college as a whole.

New Delhi:
OF THE 700-odd vacancies for teaching posts generated across several universities since the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) March 2018 circular on a new formula for reservation, only 2.5 per cent posts have been made available for Scheduled Caste candidates and none for those from Scheduled Tribes.

This data was revealed during inter-ministerial consultations for issuing an ordinance to overturn the circular and the court order that treats departments/ subjects as a unit for implementing reservation, instead of taking the university/ college as a whole. The Union government has put the recruitment process on hold.

Based on these findings, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) recently sent a proposal to amend the ‘UGC Guidelines for Implementation of Reservation Policy, 2006’ to the Union Cabinet. The Cabinet note pointed out that the very objective of reservation had been subverted by the new UGC formula.

This is evident from the advertisements put out by 11 universities for recruitment of faculty since March 2018. According to data compiled by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in the course of the inter-ministerial consultations, a total of 706 vacancies were advertised by these universities.

Of these, only 18 were reserved for SCs, in just four universities in Varanasi, Jharkhand and Allahabad. Not a single university released even one post for ST candidates. SC and ST candidates are eligible to get 15 and 7.5 per cent quota respectively at the level of professors, assistant professors and associate professors.

Fifty-seven positions were reserved for candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBC), which works out to just 8 per cent — the rules provide for 27 per cent reservation for OBC candidates at the level of assistant professors only.

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