In three years, Central larger academic institutes crammed 28,000 posts – Imperial Wire

Prior to now three years, the Central universities, the Indian Institutes of Know-how (IITs), Indian Institutes of Administration (IIMs), Indian Institutes of Info Know-how (IIITs), and Nationwide Institutes of Know-how (NITs), have collectively crammed 28,639 posts in “mission mode”, the Union Ministry of Training instructed Parliament on Monday (February 2, 2025).

Of the 28,639 school and non-faculty posts crammed, 12% or 3,485 posts had been crammed by the Scheduled Castes (SCs); 5% or 1,471 posts had been crammed by Scheduled Tribes (STs); and 21% or 6,013 posts had been crammed by Different Backward Lessons (OBCs), information supplied by the Union Ministry of Training within the Lok Sabha confirmed.

Reservation of 15% of posts for SCs, 7.5% for STs, and 27% for OBCs is remitted.

The Minister of State for Training Sukanta Majumdar shared the information on Monday in response to a query by the Congress MP from Sasaram in Bihar, Manoj Kumar, who had requested for the “present numbers and share of staff” throughout Central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and so on., and the timelines for filling vacancies at these institutes.

The filling of vacancies is a steady course of, Mr. Majumdar mentioned in his response, including that the Ministry didn’t have an lively position within the recruitment of employees for these institutes. Additional, he mentioned, the Ministry of Training had been writing to the institutes for recruiting and filling vacancies in “mission mode”.

Since September 2022, the Training Ministry has mentioned that every one Central larger academic institutes, together with the IITs, IIMs, NITs, and Central universities, have been filling posts in “mission mode”, which has led to the filling of a complete of 29,979 posts throughout all Central larger academic institutes, together with filling of about 17,494 school positions.

Taking the information of recruitments to Central universities, the IITs, IIMs, NITs, and IIITs individually, the Ministry mentioned a complete of 28,639 posts had been crammed, “together with 3,485 SC, 1,471 ST and 6,013 OBC”.

Additional, for AIIMS, New Delhi, the Ministry mentioned that there have been a complete of 781 school members in place, of which 118 had been SCs (15.1%), 40 had been STs (5.1%), and 168 had been OBCs (21.5%).