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Little room for SC/ST scientists in biotech bodies
Why is it in news?
- Under “Right To Information” query by a researcher, it has found that scientists from Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) are grossly under-represented in scientific institutions funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
More in news
- Government prescribed criteria: Several of these institutions just about meet the government prescribed criteria for reservation- 15% for SC and 7.5% for ST.
- Single-digit representation: It has been found that posts of scientist and technical grade staff (where reservation rules are not mandatory) see only single-digit representation from the reserved categories (excluding the Other Backward Classes category).
- Professors representation from SC/ST category: The government had said that in Central Universities, 193 of the 936 ‘Professor’ grade posts were from the SC/ST category as were 395 of the 1838 ‘Associate Professor’ posts.
Source
The Hindu