(a) the details of pre-March 2018 quota framework;
(b) the percentage of reservation for OBCs being implemented at the direct entry level
faculty position in Universities;
(c) whether it is true that the Law Ministry has recommended to strictly implement 27
per cent reservation for OBCs at all direct entry level faculty positions in Universities;
and
(d) if so, the manner in which the Government is planning to take this issue forward
since recruitment was stopped since March, 2018?
MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL ‘NISHANK’)
(a) & (b): 15% and 7.5% reservation was provided to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and
Scheduled Tribes (STs) respectively in the direct recruitment of faculty and 27% to the
Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in direct entry level faculty positions in Universities.
The reservation rosters for the same were prepared by considering a University as a
‘Unit’, according to the provisions of the University Grants Commission (UGC)
Guidelines of 2006.
(c) & (d): The Hon’ble Allahabad High Court in its judgement to W. P. No. 43260 of
2016 dated 07.04.2017 directed that the reservation roster should be prepared by
considering the Department as a Unit instead of University as a ‘Unit’. The Central
Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Ordinance, 2019 was
promulgated on 07.03.2019, to restore the University as a Unit, which was
subsequently repealed and the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in
Teachers’ Cadre) Act, 2019 was notified on 09.07.2019. Under the provisions of this
Act, 27% reservation is specified for SEBCs in direct recruitment of faculty.
Instructions have already been issued to all Universities vide UGC letter dated
04.06.2019 to actively fill all vacancies.
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