New Delhi, Dec 5: Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha about the vacancies throughout the country in the Central Higher Education Institutions (CHEIs), Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that a total of 25,257 vacancies have been filled up by the CHEIs.

In a written reply, he said that 25,777 posts have been filled up till October 29, including 15,139 faculty positions, in mission mode by all CHEIs.

Providing details in this regard, the Education Minister said that a total number of 25,257 vacancies have been filled up by various institutions including Central Universities, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs), National Institute of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore collectively.
Out of the 25,257, a total of 15,047 are faculty positions, including 1869 SC, 739 ST, 3089 OBC and 254 People with Disabilities were filled.

The Union Minister also said that the occurring of vacancies and filling thereof is a continuous process. "The vacancies arise due to promotion, retirement, resignation, death, opening of new institutions, schemes or projects, and additional requirements on account of enhanced students’ strength and expansion of capacity in existing institutions," said Dharmendra Pradhan.

"Measures have been taken to attract quality faculties which include year-round open advertisements, recruitment through search-cum-selection procedures, a special recruitment drive, mission mode recruitment, and invitations to alumni/scientists/ faculty, etc," added the Education Minister.

Pradhan further said that the government has also notified the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Act, 2019 in 2019 to provide for the reservation of posts in appointments of persons belonging to the SCs, the STs, the socially and educationally backward classes and the economically weaker sections, to teachers’ cadre in these CHEIs.

"The reservation is provided in the teachers' cadre to the extent of 15% for SCs, 7.5% for STs, 27% for socially and educationally backward classes, and 10% for Economically weaker sections, as per notification dated 12.7.2019 issued in pursuance of the said Act," he added.

Notably, the country has 48 Central Universities, including 47 Central Universities running in regular mode and one Central University -- IGNOU -- running in distance learning mode.

Responding to another question, Dharmendra Pradhan said that there are 18,940 sanctioned teaching posts and 35,640 sanctioned non-teaching posts in Central Universities till October 31.

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