Practically 35 per cent of college posts are vacant within the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, the premier healthcare institute has revealed. Responding to a question underneath the Proper to Info (RTI) Act, the executive officer of the college cell of the AIIMS-Delhi stated 430 college seats had been vacant on the institute in opposition to a sanctioned energy of 1,235.
The appliance was filed by RTI activist M M Shuja, who sought details about the functioning of the AIIMS Delhi in January this yr. The institute offered the data to the applicant on March 18.
The institute revealed that it had marketed 172 posts of Assistant professors in 2019, however solely 110 candidates joined.
In 2021 and 2022, solely 173 assistant professors and three affiliate professors on the School of Nursing joined the institute, as in opposition to 270 vacant posts that had been marketed. There was no recruitment for normal college posts in 2020, 2023, 2024 and the primary three months of the present yr, it stated.
