Fill all vacancies at CHEIs in mission mode by Sept 2022: Centre

An NCBC functionary said that the panel had been giving reminders to the Central government.

All CHEIs to include a separate chapter in their annual report from 2021-22 on the status of this backlog. (File)

2 min readPatnaAug 27, 2021 09:31 AM IST First published on: Aug 27, 2021 at 09:31 AM IST

In a response to letters by the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), the Union Ministry of Education has assured that all vacancies in Central Higher Education Institutions (CHEI) will be filled up by September next year.

Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare, in a letter addressed to directors of IITs, NITs, IITs, IIMs, vice-chancellors of Central universities and heads of Centrally-funded higher institutions, on 24 August, wrote, “I am writing in connection with faculty positions that are lying vacant, especially in the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes and EWS category in the Central Higher Education Institutions (CHEIs)… to clear this backlog, it has been decided that all CHEIs should fill these vacancies in mission mode within a period of one year, starting from 5th September 2021 and 4th Septem

Also Read | 88 new colleges opened in past two years but over 35 per cent teaching posts vacant: Data

ber 2022 and to report about the action taken and progress made.”

Santosh Singh

Santosh Singh is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express since June 2008. Exper... Read More