Lok Sabha passes the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill 2019, which has replaced an ordinance issued in March.

The bill seeks to put an end to the controversy that erupted over the faculty reservation mechanism in universities following court orders.

The bill proposes to make universities the base unit rather than a department for providing reservation to teachers in universities. The legislation would help fill about 8,000 existing vacancies in 41 central universities.


“We have been sensitive to the issue of education and the rights of the weaker sections… I wish you would have congratulated us for being sensitive to the issue,” HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal told the opposition while replying to the debate.