In the past three years, the Central universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and National Institutes of Technology (NITs), have collectively filled 28,639 posts in “mission mode”, the Union Ministry of Education told Parliament on Monday (February 2, 2025).
Of the 28,639 faculty and non-faculty posts filled, 12% or 3,485 posts were filled by the Scheduled Castes (SCs); 5% or 1,471 posts were filled by Scheduled Tribes (STs); and 21% or 6,013 posts were filled by Other Backward Classes (OBCs), data provided by the Union Ministry of Education in the Lok Sabha showed.
Reserved faculty posts are still vacant and out of reach
Reservation of 15% of posts for SCs, 7.5% for STs, and 27% for OBCs is mandated.
The Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar shared the data on Monday in response to a question by the Congress MP from Sasaram in Bihar, Manoj Kumar, who had asked for the “existing numbers and percentage of employees” across Central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), etc., and the timelines for filling vacancies at these institutes.
