The Centre has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), including IITBhubaneswar (IITBBS), to carry out special recruitment drives to fill up vacancies meant for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).
Pointing out that most posts meant for the reserved categories were lying vacant in the elite technical institutions, the ministry of human resources development (MHRD) has recently asked the IITs to take corrective steps at the earliest.
IIT sources said MHRD secretary Ashok Thakur wrote to the IIT board of governors after a parliamentary committee expressed its dissatisfaction over the large-scale vacancies for the reserved categories. The panel had pointed out that the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) largely filled up the reserved posts indicating availability of qualified persons among the reserved category too.
However, the IITs invariably failed to recruit SCs and STs. IITBBS data indicates the institute fares poorly in maintaining the reservation ratio, as prescribed by the department of personnel and training (DoPT). The institute currently has 73 faculty members of three categories. Of the 56 posts of assistant professors, it has none from the ST category and just one from the SC.
As many as 47 posts are occupied by the General category candidates while OBCs hold seven posts and a person with disability holds another. As per quota rules, it should have 15% SCs, 7.5% STs and 27% OBCs. Of the 30 sanctioned posts of associate professors, only four are filled all by general candidates only. All the 13 professors are from General category.
Of the total 73 teachers, 63 are regular, including six professors, four associate professors and 53 assistant professors. While four professors are reemployed (after retirement), three professors and three assistant professors are in the visiting category, the institute sources said.
Skewed reservation norms glare in non-teaching posts as well with not even one occupied by SCs or STs. Of the 12 sanctioned Group A posts, only seven are filled, all by general category candidates while the rest five are vacant. In Group B, only 10 of the sanctioned 40 posts are filled; eight by general and two by OBCs. In Group C, five of the 47 sanctioned strength are filled, four by general and one by OBC category, the institute sources said.
IIT authorities, when contacted, said the institute is always striving hard to meet the reservation guidelines while filling up the posts. "We have not carried out any special drive but we always make the advertisements open for all categories as per norms," said IITBBS registrar B K Ray.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Centre-asks-IIT-Bhubaneswar-to-fill-up-reserved-posts/articleshow/19332910.cms
Pointing out that most posts meant for the reserved categories were lying vacant in the elite technical institutions, the ministry of human resources development (MHRD) has recently asked the IITs to take corrective steps at the earliest.
IIT sources said MHRD secretary Ashok Thakur wrote to the IIT board of governors after a parliamentary committee expressed its dissatisfaction over the large-scale vacancies for the reserved categories. The panel had pointed out that the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) largely filled up the reserved posts indicating availability of qualified persons among the reserved category too.
However, the IITs invariably failed to recruit SCs and STs. IITBBS data indicates the institute fares poorly in maintaining the reservation ratio, as prescribed by the department of personnel and training (DoPT). The institute currently has 73 faculty members of three categories. Of the 56 posts of assistant professors, it has none from the ST category and just one from the SC.
As many as 47 posts are occupied by the General category candidates while OBCs hold seven posts and a person with disability holds another. As per quota rules, it should have 15% SCs, 7.5% STs and 27% OBCs. Of the 30 sanctioned posts of associate professors, only four are filled all by general candidates only. All the 13 professors are from General category.
Of the total 73 teachers, 63 are regular, including six professors, four associate professors and 53 assistant professors. While four professors are reemployed (after retirement), three professors and three assistant professors are in the visiting category, the institute sources said.
Skewed reservation norms glare in non-teaching posts as well with not even one occupied by SCs or STs. Of the 12 sanctioned Group A posts, only seven are filled, all by general category candidates while the rest five are vacant. In Group B, only 10 of the sanctioned 40 posts are filled; eight by general and two by OBCs. In Group C, five of the 47 sanctioned strength are filled, four by general and one by OBC category, the institute sources said.
IIT authorities, when contacted, said the institute is always striving hard to meet the reservation guidelines while filling up the posts. "We have not carried out any special drive but we always make the advertisements open for all categories as per norms," said IITBBS registrar B K Ray.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Centre-asks-IIT-Bhubaneswar-to-fill-up-reserved-posts/articleshow/19332910.cms
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