Since September 2022, the Education Ministry has said that all Central higher educational institutes, including the IITs, IIMs, NITs, and Central universities, have been filling posts in “mission mode”.
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In the past three years, the Central universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and National Institutes of Technology (NITs), have collectively filled 28,639 posts in “mission mode”, the Union Ministry of Education told Parliament on Monday (February 2, 2025).
Of the 28,639 faculty and non-faculty posts filled, 12% or 3,485 posts were filled by the Scheduled Castes (SCs); 5% or 1,471 posts were filled by Scheduled Tribes (STs); and 21% or 6,013 posts were filled by Other Backward Classes (OBCs), data provided by the Union Ministry of Education in the Lok Sabha showed.
Reservation of 15% of posts for SCs, 7.5% for STs, and 27% for OBCs is mandated.
The Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar shared the data on Monday in response to a question by the Congress MP from Sasaram in Bihar, Manoj Kumar, who had asked for the “existing numbers and percentage of employees” across Central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs, All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), etc., and the timelines for filling vacancies at these institutes.
The filling of vacancies is a continuous process, Mr. Majumdar said in his response, adding that the Ministry did not have an active role in the recruitment of staff for these institutes. Further, he said, the Ministry of Education had been writing to the institutes for recruiting and filling vacancies in “mission mode”.
Since September 2022, the Education Ministry has said that all Central higher educational institutes, including the IITs, IIMs, NITs, and Central universities, have been filling posts in “mission mode”, which has led to the filling of a total of 29,979 posts across all Central higher educational institutes, including filling of about 17,494 faculty positions.
Taking the data of recruitments to Central universities, the IITs, IIMs, NITs, and IIITs separately, the Ministry said a total of 28,639 posts had been filled, “including 3,485 SC, 1,471 ST and 6,013 OBC”.
Further, for AIIMS, New Delhi, the Ministry said that there were a total of 781 faculty members in position, of which 118 were SCs (15.1%), 40 were STs (5.1%), and 168 were OBCs (21.5%).
Published – February 02, 2026 08:38 pm IST
