Over 10,000 vacant positions of teachers across central universities, IITs and IIMs: Education Ministry
In a written response, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said 6,535 full-time teaching posts were vacant in the central universities, 403 across 20 IIMs and 3,876 in the 23 IITs.
Over 10,000 positions of teachers are still lying vacant across central universities, IITs and IIMs, the Union Education Ministry informed the Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Winter Session. In a written response, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said 6,535 full-time teaching posts were vacant in the central universities, 403 across 20 IIMs and 3,876 in the 23 IITs.
As per the Higher Education regulator University Grants Commission (UGC), there are 54 central Universities across the country. During the Monsoon Session, the government had informed the Parliament that the vacancies in the central universities account for 40 per cent of total teaching positions.
The institutes also fare poorly in representation of members of the SC, ST and OBC communities in teaching roles. In the central universities, 1,015 SC faculty positions, 590 ST and 1,767 OBC posts are vacant. The IITs collectively have 32 ST, 183 SCs and 462 OBC faculty. The corresponding figures are 5, 27 and 45 for IIMs. The Constitution mandates that in educational institutes, at least 7.5 per cent teaching positions are occupied by STs, 15 per cent by SCs and 27 per cent by OBCs.
Meanwhile, Minister of state for education Subhas Sarkar informed Rajya Sabha that the Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET) will be conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in multiple languages. The government has declared that all national-level exams in the country will be held in scheduled languages.
In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, the Minister mentioned that the CUCET will be conducted in 12 scheduled languages- Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Tamil ,Telugu, Urdu and Punjabi.
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