<p>New Delhi: A Parliamentary Committee has pointed out several irregularities in Delhi University in the hiring of staff reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities. </p><p>In many cases, the university has hired other faculty members citing that they have not found adequate people from the SC-ST community. </p><p>The Standing Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in its report, “Role of autonomous bodies/educational Institutions like Central Universities, Engineering Colleges, IIMs, IITs, Medical Institutes in socio-economic development and implementation of reservation policy for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes with specific reference to University of Delhi” has found that that since 2013, when reservation rosters were recast, the University of Delhi did not do so, and that resulted in a major shift in the reserved positions. DU, the report finds, did not notify backlog vacancies and, “... the same were branded as shortfall before recasting of rosters, thereby depriving the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes faculty members of their legitimate positions in the rosters.”</p>.Parliamentary panel: SC/ST candidates denied chance.<p>“The Committee are constrained to note that since the inception of the exercise of recasting rosters in University of Delhi, the same has been marred with various discrepancies and shortcomings due to its faulty implementation. The Committee further takes a serious note that University of Delhi has been ignoring this anomaly blatantly and despite numerous attempts by the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Teachers’ body, it has not taken any corrective action in this regard,” the committee has noted. The panel further found that in some cases backlog vacancies were not carried forward but were dereserved and filled by unreserved candidates. </p><p>The panel, headed by BJP MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, said that SC/ST bodies have now demanded that the roster be recast from 1997 onwards, but noted that it might not be possible to do so. “However, in the interest of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes teachers working in the University who have been denied their legitimate right to promotion due to wrong representation in roster, the Committee recommend that a study be conducted regarding recasting rosters,” the panel recommended. </p>
<p>New Delhi: A Parliamentary Committee has pointed out several irregularities in Delhi University in the hiring of staff reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities. </p><p>In many cases, the university has hired other faculty members citing that they have not found adequate people from the SC-ST community. </p><p>The Standing Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in its report, “Role of autonomous bodies/educational Institutions like Central Universities, Engineering Colleges, IIMs, IITs, Medical Institutes in socio-economic development and implementation of reservation policy for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes with specific reference to University of Delhi” has found that that since 2013, when reservation rosters were recast, the University of Delhi did not do so, and that resulted in a major shift in the reserved positions. DU, the report finds, did not notify backlog vacancies and, “... the same were branded as shortfall before recasting of rosters, thereby depriving the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes faculty members of their legitimate positions in the rosters.”</p>.Parliamentary panel: SC/ST candidates denied chance.<p>“The Committee are constrained to note that since the inception of the exercise of recasting rosters in University of Delhi, the same has been marred with various discrepancies and shortcomings due to its faulty implementation. The Committee further takes a serious note that University of Delhi has been ignoring this anomaly blatantly and despite numerous attempts by the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Teachers’ body, it has not taken any corrective action in this regard,” the committee has noted. The panel further found that in some cases backlog vacancies were not carried forward but were dereserved and filled by unreserved candidates. </p><p>The panel, headed by BJP MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, said that SC/ST bodies have now demanded that the roster be recast from 1997 onwards, but noted that it might not be possible to do so. “However, in the interest of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes teachers working in the University who have been denied their legitimate right to promotion due to wrong representation in roster, the Committee recommend that a study be conducted regarding recasting rosters,” the panel recommended. </p>