Nagpur: Even as the Union Cabinet approved ordinance to restore 200-point roster on March 7, the Nagpur University (NU) is yet to clear its stand on which reservation mechanism system it is following.In fact, an analysis of the 17 positions advertised for its conducted college, Laxminarayan Institute of Technology ( LIT ), shows a reserved category has been given more than 50% seats in one of the departments. Yet, one more reserved post in same category has been advertised in petrochemical technology department which already has two quota appointments besides two unreserved.As recruitment is underway, the filling up of this post as it is would lead to another sort of staffing imbalance at LIT. After recruitment, the department will have two unreserved appointments while three teachers would come from same category.The move has been dubbed as ‘unfair’ by unreserved applicants.On February 8, TOI had reported that the NU didn’t seem to be following either 200-point or the 13-point roster system in its employment notice for LIT.On January 25, the NU advertised 17 posts treating LIT as one unit rather than distributing the quota as per the new UGC regulation. The 200-point roster consider the entire college as one unit while 13-point takes each department as a unit.The advertised posts are for Chemical Engineering (CE), Chemical Technology (CT), Chemistry (CH) and Humanities (H). The NU has invited 12 applications for CT, three for CE, one each in CH and H. Five positions have been kept reserved for SC, ST and VJ/NT while no allocation has been made for OBC and while the rest are unreserved.It is not clear which method the NU applied to calculate the distribution of these posts. Irrespective of treating the prestigious institute as one unit or each of its department individually, the representation of reserved categories don’t appear in conformity with the apex body’s norms or with the new 200-point system.As per the 200-point roster system, the first, second, third, fifth and sixth are unreserved. The fourth, eight and 12th are earmarked for OBC while the 7th for SC and 14th for ST. Adding to this confusion, the Maratha quota too has to be added to the roster.Vice-chancellor SP Kane and acting registrar Neeraj Khaty didn’t answer to TOI’s calls. TOI also emailed queries to Kane and Khaty, but they didn’t reply to them as well.

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