Daily Current Affairs Article 28th December 2020: A government committee recently reiterated a longstanding demand of the IITs exemption from implementing reservation in faculty positions.
The Ministry of Education in April 2020 had appointed a committee for suggesting measures for effective implementation of reservation in student admissions and faculty recruitment in IITs.
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This committee, headed by IIT-Delhi V Ramgopal Rao, submitted its report in June 2020, the contents of which were recently reported in the media.
Instead of implementing quotas in faculty positions, the 23 IITs should be exempted from reservations altogether under the CEI Act, 2019.
Rather than specific quotas, diversity issues should be addressed through outreach campaigns and targeted faculty recruitment.
IITs should be added to the list of “Institutions of Excellence” mentioned in the Schedule to the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Act 2019.
Section 4 of the Act exempts “institutions of excellence, research institutions, institutions of national and strategic importance” mentioned in the Schedule and minority institutions from providing reservation.
