Eflu recruitment for 58 vacancies gets court boost

Telangana High Court on Wednesday allowed English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) to go ahead with interviews for recruitment of 58 vacant positions of professor, associate professor and assistant professor. The process was stopped following the February 2 and 5 orders of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC).

However, the court directed the university not to declare the results of interviews, until further orders by it.

A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B.Vijaysen Reddy, was dealing with a petition filed by the university, which sought suspension of orders issued by NCBC.

After a complaint by Congress leader Dasoju Sravan alleging that the reservation policy was being violated in the recruitment process, NCBC member Talloju Achary conducted a hearing in the

AFTER A complaint by Congress leader Dasoju Sravan alleging that the reservation policy was being violated in the recruitment process, NCBC member Talloju Achary conducted a hearing in the university and directed them to withhold the recruitment process.

university and directed them to withhold the recruitment process. According to Sravan, university should follow UGC norms as it was getting funds from them. He said that there should have been eight professors, 16 associate professors and 39 assistant professors from the OBC community. However, while there was no representation of professors and associate professors, only 23 out of 39 posts sanctioned for assistant professors have been filled. But, as per recruitment notification issued in 2020, university did not reserve sufficient posts for OBC community. Based on that, NCBC stayed the recruitment process.