Election Commission clears hiring of 6,000 university teachers

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has cleared the decks for recruitment of over 6,000 teachers across all Central universities.

These appointments have been held up since March 2018 owing to the long litigation in Supreme Court over the changed formula for SC/ST quota implementation.

However, the EC has directed the human resource development ministry to announce the list of final appointees only after the Lok Sabha elections are completed.


The EC has said that while it has no objection “to the starting of recruitment process’, from the Model Code of Conduct point of view, this approval is subject to the condition that “declaration of result and appointments shall be done after completion of election process”.

Court orders had struck down the University Grants Commission’s reservation formula for SC/ST/OBC faculty recruitment -- an issue that had sparked a major political controversy in 2018 and led to a complete freeze in teacher hirings across all Central universities in 2018-19.

The Modi government even filed a review petition in the Supreme Court to restore the old quota formula but it was dismissed by the apex court.