Close to 35 per cent of faculty posts are vacant in AIIMS, Delhi

The top healthcare institution, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), in Delhi, has announced that about 35% of its professor positions are unfilled. The AIIMS-Delhi faculty cell's administrative officer responded to a question under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by stating that, out of the institute's authorized 1,235 faculty seats, 430 were open.

RTI activist M M Shuja submitted the application in January of this year in order to obtain information regarding the operations of AIIMS Delhi. On March 18, the applicant received the information from the institute.

According to the institute, only 110 applicants applied for the 172 assistant professor positions it posted in 2019. Out of the 270 open positions that were advertised, only 173 assistant professors and three associate professors joined the College of Nursing in 2021 and 2022. There was no hiring for regular faculty positions in 2020, 2023, 2024, or the first three months of the current year.