About 80% of the posts in central universities for professors under the OBC category were approved and according to data provided by the Center on Wednesday, about 83% of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category are vacant.
In response to a question from RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha in Rajya Sabha, Union Moss for Education Sukanta Majumdar presented data on the number-wise number of posts and posts filled for professors, associate professors and assistant professors by June 30, 2025.
According to the data, under the OBC category, only 84 posts of 423 approved for professors have been filled. For the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category, 83% of the posts are vacant as only 24 out of 144 are filled, while the approved 64% of the posts are vacant in the Scheduled Castes (SC) category, out of which only 111 posts out of 111 are being filled.
In the general category, 39% of the approved posts approved for professors were vacant with 935 out of 1,538 posts.
For associate professors, about 65% of the posts sanctioned for ST category (108 out of 307) and 69% (275 of 883) were vacant in the OBC category. In the SC category, 51% of the posts were vacated with 308 out of 632.
In the general category, 16% of the posts were vacant – 2,533 out of 3,013 were filled.
In the case of Assistant Professor, SC/ST/OBC categories were the lowest vacancies – 23% for OBC (1,838 of 2,382), 15% for ST (595 of 704), and 14% for SC (1,180 of 1,370).
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RJD’s JHA had also asked for the number of candidates declared “not found suitable” in each reserved category, what data shows the high phenomenon of NFS in these categories, and due to the use of high NFS in the recruitment of reserved-grains.
Stating that the candidates’ data has not been declared “not found suitable”, they have not been maintained centrally, Majumdar said in his response that applications are invited through open advertisements, and selection committees are constituted for recruitment that recommends the candidate’s suitability for the post.
Accordingly, appointments are made on the basis of these recommendations, and “only in cases where appropriate candidates were not available, despite the category, appointments were not made.”
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