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Central Universities Recruitment: HRD ministry seeks election commission’s nod to start hiring process

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India
Apr 04, 2019 02:32 PM IST

The court quashed the provisions of UGC guidelines which prescribed that the cadre or unit for determining reservation roster points should be ‘university/college’ and not ‘department’, a letter by ministry to the EC said.

The HRD ministry has sought the Election Commission’s nod to start recruitment process in central universities while the model code of conduct is in effect.

Central University recruitment 2019(Yogesh Kumar/HT PHOTO)
Central University recruitment 2019(Yogesh Kumar/HT PHOTO)

In a letter to the poll panel, the ministry said, “In view of the UGC mandate to provide teaching and non-teaching faculty before start of new academic year in June, 2019, the Election Commission of India is requested to give its clearance/permission from Model Code of Conduct for starting/continuing the recruitment process for regular teaching and non-teaching vacant posts in central universities”. The appointments for teaching posts in central universities were put on hold in July last year in view of a judgement of the Allahabad High Court in April 2017.

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The court quashed the provisions of UGC guidelines which prescribed that the cadre or unit for determining reservation roster points should be ‘university/college’ and not ‘department’, a letter by ministry to the EC said.

The letter was sent to the EC on April 1 and a reply is awaited.

Ministry officials said the EC has already given clearance to Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and National Institutes of Technology to start recruitment process.

The HC order was later upheld by the Supreme Court in July and a review petition filed by the government was rejected.

The government promulgated the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Ordinance, 2019, to restore the earlier 200-point roster-based reservation system in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs).

The new system will consider the university or college as one unit instead of treating department or subject as one unit.

Due to the matter being sub-judice, many teaching positions have been lying vacant for a long time. “Out of total number of 17,425 sanctioned teaching posts in 40 central universities, 6,141 posts are lying vacant as on November 1, 2018. “In order to improve the teaching standards of higher educational institutions and to ensure that studies of students are not affected, it is necessary to start the recruitment process immediately so that these vacant teaching positions are filled before start of the new academic session,” the ministry said. PTI SLB DPB

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