What are the key highlights from the data on vacancies in IIT?<\/b><\/h4>\n
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Faculty from Reserved Categories<\/b><\/p>\n
Only 12% of the teaching staff are from Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> As per the reservation policies, the SCs, STs, OBCs, and EWS should be provided with a reservation of 7.5%, 15%, 27% and 10% respectively. This would mean that ideally at least 59.5% of the faculty must be from reserved categories.<\/span><\/p>\n Vacancies Institutions wise<\/b><\/p>\n IIT Dhanbad had 57.2% of posts vacant, followed by 53.4% in IIT Kharagpur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n IIT Delhi was the exception, with just 9.4% of the posts vacant. However, it had one of the lowest representations of faculty from reserved groups (6.5%). IIT Bombay had the poorest representation from reserved categories with just 3.8%.<\/span><\/p>\n The government is filling the vacancies in a mission mode under the reserved categories. However, recruitment has already come under criticism as the problems posed by the flexible cadre structure in IITs have not been addressed.<\/span><\/p>\n As per the flexible cadre structure, the sanctioned faculty strength is not fixed at each category, viz. assistant professors, associate professors and professors but only at the overall level.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: \u00a0This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Over 40% of teaching posts in IITs are vacant: govt<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu <\/b>on 9th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to data provided by the Ministry of Education, Over 40% of teaching posts in all 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are vacant. What are the key highlights from the data on vacancies in IIT? Faculty from Reserved Categories Only 12% of the teaching staff are from Scheduled Castes (SC),… Continue reading Over 40% of teaching posts in IITs are vacant: govt.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-167706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704818016},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How is the Government filling the vacancies in reserved categories?<\/b><\/h5>\n