Over 6,500 teaching positions vacant in central universities, most in DU: Education ministry

July 19, 2022Last Updated: July 19, 2022

Over 6,500 faculty positions are vacant in cdental universities across the us of a with majority of them being within the Delhi university accompanied by means of Allahabad university, BHU and AMU, according to Ministry of Education (MoE) records.

The statistics changed into shared by means of union minister of state for education Subhas Sarkar, in reaction to a written question in Lok Sabha on Monday. In keeping with the MoE, a total of 6,549 facuality positions are vacant in cetral universities.

The Delhi University has the most vacancies at (900) observed through the college of Allahabad (622), Banaras Hindu College (532), Aligarh Muslim College (498) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (326).
“going on of vacancies and filling there of is a continuous technique. The vacancies arise because of retirement, resignation and extra necessities as a result of stronger college students’ strength.
“the establishments are adopting numerous measures to address faculty shortages in an effort to ensure that studies of school / college students aren’t affected which inter-alia, includes engaging studies students, settlement, re-employed, adjunct and traveling college,” sarkar stated.

“Ministry of education has asked all the vital higher educational establishments to replenish the vacancies in a venture mode inside a length of one year starting from September 5, 2021,” he introduced.
The minister similarly said in view that August 2021, 4,807 posts in important universities were marketed for which the choice methods are on.

Imperative universities with over 100 vacant teaching positions are Jamia Millia Islamia (223), Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University (231), Visva Bharati (194), North Jap Hill University (179), Tripura College (146), College of Hyderabad (163), Pondicherry College (156), Significant College of Odisha (137), Manipur College (127), Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalya (125), Vital College of Haryana (120), Central University of Kashmir (116) and Central College of Rajasthan (101).