{"id":95662,"date":"2021-03-16T18:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=95662"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T05:34:15","slug":"vacancies-in-central-institutions-for-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vacancies-in-central-institutions-for-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vacancies in Central institutions&#8221; for higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Union Education Minister informed the Lok Sabha about the vacancies in the faculty positions of Central institutions for higher education. He mentioned, there is a higher vacancy in the seats reserved for OBCs, Scheduled Castes, and Tribes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the Vacancies in Central institutions of higher education?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than half of the faculty positions reserved for the OBCs in Central institutions of higher education are vacant.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, 40% of those reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in the Central institutions of higher education also remain unfilled.<\/li>\n<li>This situation is prominent in the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). More than 60% of SC and OBC reserved positions are vacant, while almost 80% of positions reserved for the STs are vacant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vacancies in Central institutions at Professor Level:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vacancies in Central institutions for SCs and STs:<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>In Central Universities, vacancies were higher at the level of professors and not the assistant professor level.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 709 assistant professor positions reserved for the STs more than 500 have gotten filled.<\/li>\n<li>However, when it comes to professors, only nine of the total 137 have gotten filled for the ST candidates. This means that <strong>93% of these posts remain vacant<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vacancies in Central institutions for OBCs<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>Similarly, 64% of the 2,206 assistant professor positions reserved for the OBCs have gotten filled in the Central Universities.<\/li>\n<li>However, less than 5% of the 378 professor positions reserved for the OBCs have gotten filled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GFF8CK7EM.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Union Education Minister informed the Lok Sabha about the vacancies in the faculty positions of Central institutions for higher education. He mentioned, there is a higher vacancy in the seats reserved for OBCs, Scheduled Castes, and Tribes. What are the Vacancies in Central institutions of higher education? More than half&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vacancies-in-central-institutions-for-higher-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Vacancies in Central institutions&#8221; for higher education<\/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":[1309],"class_list":["post-95662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-education_related","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95662","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=95662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}