The OBC students’ body demanded IITs to fix number of each cadre, upload faculty reservation rosters with summary of backlog of SC, ST, OBCs.
Vagisha Kaushik | February 27, 2023 | 05:04 PM IST
NEW DELHI: The All India OBC Students’ Association (AIOBCSA) has urged President Droupadi Murmu to direct the education ministry officials to issue guidelines to all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to fix the number of each cadre of teaching posts for direct recruitment and to upload the updated faculty reservation rosters with the summary of backlog of SC, ST, OBC in each cadre on their official websites.
The students’ association wrote a letter to President Murmu about the non-implementation of reservation policy by the IITs and the ministry of education. “As you are aware that as per the Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Teachers Cadre) Act-2019, the SC/ST/OBC reservation applies to the sanctioned strength in each cadre of the teaching posts (professor, associate professor, and assistant professor) in IITs which is effective since March 7, 2019,” said AIOBCSA in the letter.
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The students’ body argued that the IITs have done nothing to implement the faculty reservation “in letter and spirit” even after various instructions issued by the education ministry in the last three and a half years.
AIOBCSA pointed out towards the following “anti-reservation acts” of the IITs:
AIOBCSA finally urged President Droupdadi Murmu to look into the matter personally and take action to protect the rights of SC, ST, and OBCs.
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