Explained: Why are IITs resisting quotas for teaching posts?
Despite being centrally-run educational institutions, why and how have the IITs resisted offering quotas across teaching posts? We explain. Written by Ritika Chopra , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 23, 2020 12:24:33 pm
The Mahatma Gandhi Library, IIT Roorkee. At present, the 23 IITs reserve posts while recruiting faculty at the entry-level of Assistant Professor. (Express Photo: Tashi Tobgyal)
A government committee
recently reiterated a longstanding demand of the IITs exemption from implementing reservation in faculty positions. Despite being centrally-run educational institutions, why and how have the IITs resisted offering quotas across teaching posts? We explain:
Remove caste reservations in faculty recruitments at IITs - Panel to Centre
An expert panel has recommended that Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) should be exempted from caste reservations for faculty
BusinessToday.In | December 17, 2020 | Updated 12:21 IST
An expert panel has recommended that Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) should be exempted from caste reservations for faculty as they are institutes of national importance established under the Act of Parliament.
An eight member committee submitted a report to additional secretary, department of higher education, Ministry of Education (MoE), on July 17, proposing that the institutes be included in the list of Institutes of Excellence which are exempted from caste-based reservations, according to the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers Cadre) Act (CEI Act) of 2019.
IITs Should Be Exempt from Reservation in Faculty Appointments, Centre s Panel Suggests
The panel said the engineering schools should be exempt from implementing quota-based appointments because they are institutes of national importance.
IIT Delhi. Photo courtesy: IIT Delhi website
Rights17/Dec/2020
New Delhi: A panel appointed by the Centre has recommended that IITs should be exempted from reservations in faculty appointment. Ironically, the panel’s mandate was to suggest measures for ‘effective implementation’ of reservation in admissions and recruitment.
Indian Express, the eight-member committee has recommended that the 23 IITs should be exempted from reservations under Central Education Institutions (CEI) Act, 2019, and rather than specific quotas, issues of diversity should be addressed through “outreach campaigns and targeted recruitment of faculty”.
Exempt IIT recruitments from reservation, suggests panel
The committee’s five-page report submitted to the HRD ministry, now renamed Ministry of Education, on June 17 was made available on Wednesday under the Right to Information Act through an application filed in Uttar Pradesh. Updated: December 17, 2020 1:37:10 pm
Report drew a sharp reaction from Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle at IIT Bombay. (File)
An eight-member committee appointed by the government for suggesting measures for effective implementation of reservation in students admissions and faculty recruitment in IITs has recommended that the 23 engineering schools should be exempted from reservations under CEI Act, 2019, and rather than specific quotas, diversity issues should be addressed through outreach campaigns and targeted recruitment of faculty.
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