2019 – Posted in: Daily News

THE CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (RESERVATION IN TEACHERS’ CADRE) BILL, 2019

For: Preliminary & Mains

Topics covered: Details about the bill, need and significance

News Flash

This Bill is to ensure reservations in teaching positions in central institutions for persons from Scheduled Castes/Tribes, socially and economically backward classes, and those from economically weaker sections.

A bill that provides for university and college to be considered a unit for providing reservation instead of a “department /subject”.
The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill, 2019 seeks to replace an ordinance promulgated by the government earlier.

Why is this coming up only now?

According to the HRD Ministry, there are more than 7,000 teaching jobs lying vacant in central educational institutions.
This Bill is aimed at filling those vacancies.
The Bill also serves the purpose of fulfilling the demands of people from these sections, for their rights as mentioned in the Constitution.

What does the bill provide?

It provides for considering the university/college as one unit restoring earlier reservation system based on 200 point roster to provide constitutionally mandated reservation to the weaker sections including Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
A ‘department/subject’ will not be treated as one unit to provide reservation.
The bill also seeks to provide a 10 percent reservation to the economically weaker sections.

Teacher reservation mechanism

In March 2018, the UGC had announced that an individual department should be considered as the base unit to calculate the number of teaching posts to be reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates.

How will recruitment happen?

According to the provisions of this Bill, teachers will be given jobs through direct recruitment. This means that the process of recruitment would be by inviting applications from those eligible to teach in a Central institution, as against public advertisement.

Reservation of Posts

The Ordinance provides for reservation of posts in direct recruitment of teachers (out of the sanctioned strength) in central educational institutions. For the purpose of such reservation, a central educational institution will be regarded as one unit.

Coverage and exceptions

The Ordinance will apply to ‘central educational institutions’ which include universities set up by Acts of Parliament, institutions deemed to be a university, institutions of national importance, and institutions receiving aid from the central government.

It excludes certain institutions of excellence, research institutions, and institutions of national and strategic importance which have been specified in the Schedule to the Ordinance.

It also excludes minority education institutions.

Source: India Today

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