Revolutionizing Education Sector, LokSabha institutes ‘Teachers’ Reservation Bill’
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New Delhi, Jul. 2: The “Teachers’ Reservation Bill’ is one of the most important reforms brought by the Indian government for the recruitment of teachers. Making this bill official, yesterday The Lok Sabha positively nods for passing the Central Educational Institutions (Reservations in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill-2019.
The bill seeks to provide for the reservation of posts in appointments by direct recruitment of persons belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Educationally Backward Classes and Economically Weaker Sections to teachers cadre in Central Educational Institutions. The bill will replace the Ordinance promulgated in this regard, along with this, Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre Bill 2019, which will allow filling of about 8,000 existing vacancies in 41 Central universities and also provide 10% reservation for economically weaker sections from the general category.
Overturning a Supreme Court decision on the reservation in the appointment of teachers in universities, the Lok Sabha on Monday passed a Bill that proposes to make a university or college a unit instead of a department for the purpose of providing reservation.
The Bill is applicable to all Central universities.
Replying to a debate on the bill, Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said, “the bill is aimed at implementing 200-point reservation system instead of 13-point roster system to fill up teacher vacancies in Universities and Central Government Higher Educational Institutions.
He reiterated the government’s commitment towards reservation and to give equal opportunity to all as per the Constitution. this bill gives enough scope and opportunities in the higher education sector in the country”.
Mr. Nishank also said the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is thinking for the welfare of the poorest of the poor at the grassroots level.
Earlier, initiating the discussion, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury questioned the government for taking ordinance route over the issue. He said, his party is not opposed to the core concept of the bill, but it needs proper Parliamentary scrutiny. Pratima Mondal of Trinamool Congress spoke in support of the bill but questioned why the bill was not introduced earlier when the Supreme Court had already given the verdict on the issue. Ritesh Pandey of BSP said that the government should clarify the reservation position in the institutions of excellence.
The issue emerges from an April 2017 Allahabad High Court order, in which it said that for the purpose of reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes in universities, an individual department should be considered as the base unit to calculate the number of teaching posts to be reserved. The order was challenged in the Supreme Court, which upheld the HC order. A review petition filed by the HRD Ministry in February this year was also dismissed by the apex court.