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Pranav said candidates applying for various posts are scrutinized by a committee of senior faculty members and professors.
However, most of the IITs, including Kanpur, Ropar, Mandi, Jammu, Gandhinagar, Dharwad, Bhilai and Palakkad, do not have any professors belonging to the SC or ST community.
There is negligible recruitment of faculty members belonging to marginalized communities at the lower posts of Assistant Professor, and very few at the mid-level post of Associate Professor. It should be noted that these posts do not have executive, decision-making powers and do not form part of important policy-making committees.
So, for an institute like IIT Bombay, where almost 92 per cent of the faculty is general and many departments have no professors from SC/ST/OBC categories, the appointment committee is also predominantly general faculty members.
According to RTI responses, despite this under-representation, most of the vacancies are still in the general category. And again, the vacancies for SC/ST/OBC categories are mainly on non-executive posts.
