With Few Dalit, Adivasi Teachers, IITs, IIMs Lack ‘Environment of Empathy’: AIOBCSA President
Sheena Sachdeva | 07 January 2025 | Careers360
NEW DELHI: Since 2018, the All India OBC Students Association (AIOBCSA) has filed hundreds of applications under the Right to Information Act (RTI) to understand the extent of inclusion-or, exclusion-that India's historically-marginalised communities face in higher educational institutions.
What they found was startling-India's top institutions, Indian institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management, and central universities barely implemented the central reservation policy in admission of research scholars and appointment of teachers. Swathes of seats and posts earmarked for the Scheduled Castes. Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes (SC, ST. OBC) remained vacant….