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Central varsities have 26% vacant posts: Govt
Hindustan Times Amritsar
|July 24, 2025
NEW DELHI: Central Universities (CUs) face a significant faculty shortage as nearly 26% of the total 18,951 sanctioned posts remain vacant, with a disproportionate shortage in reserved categories, the education ministry data shared with Rajya Sabha on Wednesday revealed.
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Reserved categories—Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) — account for 36.7% of the total 4,889 vacant posts across 46 central universities funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC). In contrast, only 14.6% of
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