450 teaching posts vacant at IIT Bombay as RTI reveals low SC, ST and OBC representation

IIT Bombay had five Scheduled Caste professors, six OBC professors and no Scheduled Tribe professor among 412 professors as of September, according to RTI data accessed by Hindustan Times. The figures have renewed questions about faculty representation despite a special recruitment drive. The institute also had 450 vacant teaching posts.

New Delhi: Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) faculty members remain few at IIT Bombay despite a special recruitment drive, according to Right to Information (RTI) data accessed by Hindustan Times.

Of the institute’s 412 professors as of September, five belonged to the SC community and six to the OBC category. None belonged to the ST community. At the associate and........

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