India, March 21 -- As many as 1353 teaching and 2081 non-teaching posts are lying vacant in government-run universities in Odisha, informed Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj in Assembly today.

Replying to a query asked by Congress MLA Sofia Firdous, the Minister told the House that there are a total of 2027 sanctioned teaching posts in various departments in 17 state-run universities, out of which only 674 posts have been filled up and remaining 1353 posts are vacant.

Of total vacant teaching posts, there are 245 vacancies for professor post, 1155 for associate professor post and 666 for assistant professor post in different state public universities.

While the Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, has the highest number of vaca...