Faculty Crunch: Over 40 percent posts vacant in AIIMS, 20 percent in JIPMER, 17 percent in PGI - Video

Altogether 2783 faculty and 22861 non-faculty positions are vacant across 23 All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), JIPMER (Puducherry), and PGIMER (Chandigarh), the Union Minister of State for Health, Shri Prataprao Jadhav, informed the parliament recently.

Among these, AIIMS across the country have altogether 6376 sanctioned faculty positions. However, 2561 of these positions are unfilled, indicating 40.16% vacant positions. Altogether 19529 out of 58953 non-faculty positions are vacant across the 23 AIIMS. Therefore, around 33% non-faculty positions are vacant at the AIIMS.

There are altogether 445 sanctioned faculty and 5812 sanctioned non-faculty positions at JIPMER. Among these, 91 faculty and 1458 non-faculty positions are vacant, respectively. This indicates around 20% and 25% vacancy of faculty and non-faculty positions at the institute.

In the case of PGIMER Chandigarh, 131 out of 732 sanctioned faculty positions are vacant. Further, the institute has 1874 out of 8265 sanctioned non-faculty positions unfilled. So, PGIMER has around 17.8% vacant faculty and 22.6% vacant non-faculty positions.