Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
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The University Grants Commission instructed the universities to commence with the recruitment process for the teachers immediately, since this issue has been on hold since July 2018,  after the cabinet approved the HRD proposal of restoring the 200 point reservation where the university will be considered as a unit for calculating reserved faculty positions.

On Thursday, Union minister Arun Jaitley said that the cabinet has approved for the ordinance for restoring 200 point reservation as initially filed by HRD Ministry.

The Government also announced its decision of directly recruiting over 5000 teachers under the  Constitutional Provisions of Articles 14, 16 and 21 meeting the reservation demands of Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes.

Earlier this week, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar ensured the restoration of 200 point reservation in educational institutions.

The UGC came up with this decision after the Cabinet’s approval for promulgation of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Ordinance, 2019 for restoring the 200 point reservation in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs).

“Following the promulgation of the ordinance, the universities are directed to start recruitment process immediately,” the UGC instructed in a letter to university vice-chancellors.

With the implementation of the ordinance, the SC, ST, and SEBL constitutional provisions will be protected. While the higher educational institutions like Delhi University Teachers Association and Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association have been appreciating the decision and welcomed the decision.

DUTA said the “overdue cabinet decision”, “It is a victory for the principled struggle of the DUTA, the principled struggles carried on by various groups for social justice and inclusive education and the coming together of all of us notwithstanding differences of opinion in joint actions,” it said.

JNUTA president Atul Sood said the ordinance was a “timely measure”. “It is a correction to a historical and social justice blunder. It has come in time otherwise the loss of jobs would have been high. The government has to ensure that such a thing does not happen again. It took more than a year to correct the blunder that was caused,” he said.

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