New Delhi, July 27 -- Congress General Secretary in charge of Communications, Jairam Ramesh, on Sunday flagged what he described as a "staggering level of vacancies" in reserved faculty positions in Central Universities, citing data disclosed by the Union Government in response to a Rajya Sabha question.

Taking to social media platform X, Ramesh wrote, "The Modi Government has revealed the staggering level of vacancies among SC (Schedule Caste), ST (Schedule Tribe), and OBC (Other Backward Classes) reserved faculty positions in Central Universities - 80% positions for OBCs, 83% positions for STs, and 64% positions for SCs at the Professor level are vacant. In the general category, the vacancies are 39%."

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