Jaipur, Sept. 4 -- Nearly 63.57% posts for teaching staff are lying vacant across 16 universities in Rajasthan run by the Higher Education department, showed data collected from officials. Of the 2,512 sanctioned posts, these universities are functioning with only 915 facilities while 1,597 are vacant, revealed the latest data of the department. A total of 2,298 non-teaching posts are also vacant against 4,366 sanctioned ones. A further classification of the data showed that the maximum 541 vacancies have been reported in University of Rajasthan as opposed to the sanctioned 949 teaching posts followed by 306 in Jai Narayan Vyas University in Jodhpur against 481 posts, 147 in MBM UNiversity Jodhpur against 200 posts, and 98 in Mohan Lal Sukhadia University in Udaipur against its 260 posts. Maximum vacancies in the non-teaching posts were also seen in Rajasthan University with 1016 vacancies against 1692 posts followed by 255 in MBM JOdhpur against 307 posts, 251 in Mohan Lal Sukhadia University against 485 posts. An official from the department familiar to the matter said, "The department is making a list of the vacant posts."...