Over 41 per cent of teaching posts and nearly 46 per cent of nonteaching posts in Government universities are lying vacant in the State.
This was informed from the data furnished in the State Assembly by Higher Education Minister Ananta Das in response to a question of Congress MlA Naba Kishore Das on Thursday.
The Minister said 405 out of total 986 sanctioned teaching posts and 1167 out of 2,541 nonteaching posts are lying vacant in the Government universities. The situation in Government colleges and Government autonomous colleges is no better as 720 out of 1,986 teaching posts (about 26 per cent) and 624 out of 1,011 nonteaching posts (about 62 per cent) are lying vacant, according to the data.
The data also reveals that the aided autonomous colleges have also a large number of vacancies.
As many as 243 out of 1,347 sanctioned teaching posts and 470 out of 814 sanctioned posts are lying vacant.