Prayagraj social institute draws ire after it leaves OBC teacher seats vacant

National Commission for Backward Classes issues a notice to the institute seeking details of recruitment.

The Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute (GBPSSI), a constituent institute of the Allahabad University in Prayagraj, is facing a storm for allegedly leaving posts designated for the Other Backward Classes vacant under the ‘None Found Suitable’ (NFS) category in its latest recruitment drive for teachers.

After two law students from the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai, and Delhi University (DU) complained to the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) accusing the GBPSSI of alleged irregularities in appointment of assistant professor, associate professor and professor posts, which was preceded by much outrage on social media, the panel issued a notice to the institute seeking details of recruitment.

In their complaint, Mayank Yadav, LLM student, TISS, and Vivek Raj, Campus Law Centre, faculty of law in the DU, alleged that the entire process of selection and appointments was “malicious, blatantly irregular, full of bias against the OBCs, illegal and against the DoPT rule and constitutional mandate of reservation.”