There are 6,549 vacant faculty positions across the 43 Indian central universities.
This was a written response by the Ministry of Education (MoE)in the Lok Sabha to a question by MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy. Also, MoE has said in another answer to Rajya Sabha to a question by MP AA Rahim that 3,669 reserved category teaching positions are vacant across central varsities.
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