AIOBCSA urges Education Ministry to relax minimum eligibility for reserved posts in HEIs

The students’ association also thanked Pradhan for his continuous follow-up of the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Economically Weaker Section (EWS), and Persons with Disabilities (PWD) backlog recruitment drive in the HEIs.

AIOBCSA urges Education Ministry to relax minimum eligibility for reserved posts in HEIs

The All India OBC Students Association (AIOBCSA) has reached out to the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urging him to provide relaxation in the minimum eligibility for reserved posts in higher education institutions (HEIs).

The students’ association also thanked Pradhan for his continuous follow-up of the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Economically Weaker Section (EWS), and Persons with Disabilities (PWD) backlog recruitment drive in the HEIs.

It must be noted that the special recruitment drive will fill more than 13,000 faculty positions in Central Universities, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Indian Institutes of Science (IISc), and other HEIs and help make educational institutions more inclusive.

AIOBCSA Letter to education Ministry

AIOBCSA in its letter to the education ministry mentioned certain issues related to the special recruitment drive. There is a requirement to provide relaxation in minimum eligibility conditions for OBC, SC, ST, EWS, and PWD candidates for the recruitment of Professor and Associate Professor cadre in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), especially in the number of publications in UGC listed journals. Despite proper directions from the UGC, many Universities neither maintain rosters nor display rosters in the public domain. All HEIs must display the rosters on websites according to DoPT guidelines. The Ministry shall also audit the University rosters regularly. The Central Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) must follow a fixed roster system instead of a flexible one. The Ministry shall bring a policy to ban the No Suitable Candidate Found or None Found Suitable (NFS) options if there are applications for the reserved posts.

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