Start recruitment process, UGC tells universities after Cabinet clears ordinance to restore 200-point roster

New Delhi: After the Cabinet on Thursday cleared a proposal for promulgation of an ordinance on reservation mechanism for appointment of faculties in varsities, the University Grants Commission (UGC) wrote to universities to immediately start the teachers’ recruitment process, which was put on hold in July 2018.

[caption id=“attachment_1371955” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. News18[/caption] The communication by the UGC came following the Cabinet’s approval for promulgation of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Ordinance, 2019, to restore the earlier 200-point roster based reservation system in higher educational institutions (HEIs). The new system will consider the university or college as one unit, instead of treating department or subject as one unit. “Following the promulgation of the ordinance, the universities are directed to start recruitment process immediately,” the UGC said in a letter to university vice-chancellors. The ordinance will ensure that constitutional provisions of reservation for SC, ST and SEBL in the faculty recruitment will be protected and the current impasse in recruitment would be resolved.