There are other such ‘errors’. But we are for the moment going to leave that aside. What we want to point to is the total backlog. The total backlog of reserved posts that have not been filled, according to this Roster, for all the three cadres, namely Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, amounts to 41 vacancies. Normally when a recruitment drive is held, the total number of posts will be divided into ‘general’ and ‘reserved’ according to the percentages laid out by the government, up to a maximum of 50% reserved. But if there is a backlog of vacancies, things change. According to Article 16(4B) of the Constitution of India, and the order O. M. No. 36012/5/97-Estt(Res).VoI.II dated 20.7.2000 (following Article 16 (4B) vide the Constitution (81st Amendment) Act, 2000) the backlog of reserved vacancies of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) & OBCs should be treated as a separate and distinct group. They should not be considered together with the reserved vacancies of the year in which they are filled for the purposes of determining the ceiling of 50% reservation on the total number of vacancies for that year. In other words, although the total number of reservations is not to exceed 50% of the seats, this does not include the backlog of 41 positions. This backlog should be first accounted for, and the remaining posts divided into ‘general’ and ‘reserved’.
So, if there were 68 positions advertised, 41 of these would have been reserved for the purpose of reducing the backlog of vacancies. The remaining 27 positions should have been divided according to 54% general and 46% reserved. This means that the reserved positions would have been approximately 13 plus the backlog of 41, i.e. a total of 54.