A five-member Delhi University Committee panel concluded that St Stephen’s College violated the University’s guidelines for shortlisting Assistant Professor candidates, allegedly to accommodate candidates who were otherwise ineligible.
A Delhi University Committee constituted in late April found that St Stephen’s College had violated the University’s criteria for shortlisting candidates for assistant professor interviews. The college called in more applicants than permitted, allegedly to accommodate candidates who would otherwise have been ineligible for the selection committee to consider.
The committee was constituted in late April after the University’s Executive Council, chaired by Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh, took serious note of alleged violations in faculty recruitment at St. Stephen’s College. Calling the issue “serious”, the council approved the formation of a committee to investigate the matter. The five-member panel thus constituted is headed by Professor Inder Mohan Kapahi, with other members including Aman Kumar, Monica Arora, and L.S. Chaudhary.
According to university norms, only 40 candidates per vacancy and 20 for subsequent vacancies are recommended to be shortlisted for interviews. The committee’s report, accessed by Hindustan Times, stated that the shortlisting criteria are stated in the University’s revised 2024 standard operating procedure (SOP), which was issued for assistant professor recruitment on June 3, 2024. It applies to the recruitment advertisements issued on or after December 1, 2023, and those whose application deadlines fell on or after that date.
The report also observed that a notice on the St Stephen’s College website stated that 70 candidates would be shortlisted for each unreserved vacancy for the post of assistant professor, violating the University’s criteria of 40 candidates per vacancy.
The College issued a recruitment notification in July 2025 for assistant professor posts across several departments: Philosophy, Mathematics, History, English, Hindi, Physics, and Chemistry, along with single vacancies in Computer Science, Sanskrit, Physical Education, Political Science, and Economics.
According to the Panel’s report, it called more than 75 candidates for interviews for each subject, exceeding the prescribed shortlisting limits.
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