Sub-problem

Institutions leave reserved posts vacant by declaring that no suitable candidate was found

• National

The Ministry of Education told Parliament that of the vacant reserved teaching posts in central universities, several hundred were left unfilled over a five-year period specifically because institutions recorded that none was found suitable. Whether this reflects a genuine pipeline constraint or the selection process itself is contested and not settled by the reply. What is documented is a discretionary mechanism through which reserved posts remain unfilled. Evidence confidence: Medium — specifically named in a Parliamentary reply, which is strong; the interpretation is not resolved by the source.