DTU announces 219 assistant professor vacancies, including 17 for PwBD category

New Delhi, Oct 23 (INB) Delhi Technological University (DTU) has announced 219 vacancies for assistant professors across 24 disciplines, including 17 posts for persons with benchmark disabilities (PwBD), according to an official notification published on Friday.
The recruitment drive includes backlog vacancies and a special drive for the PwBD category, the notification said. The online application process began on October 23 at 11 am and will close on December 7 at 5 pm. Applications will be accepted through the university’s official website, it said. Of the total 219 vacancies, 62 are in the unreserved category, 27 for Scheduled Castes, 21 for Scheduled Tribes, 80 for Other Backward Classes and 29 for the Economically Weaker Sections.
Computer Science and Engineering has the highest number of vacancies at 36, followed by Civil Engineering and Production Engineering with 20 each, and Mechanical Engineering with 18. Applied Physics has 15 vacancies, while Applied Mathematics and Automobile Engineering have 11 and 12 posts, respectively. Engineering Physics also has 11 vacancies, and Management (DSM) has 10.
The other disciplines include Information Technology (nine), Electrical Engineering (eight), Environmental Science and Engineering (six), Biotechnology (six), Humanities (Economics) (five), Applied Chemistry (four), Chemical Engineering (four), Electronics and Communication Engineering (four), Humanities (English) (three), Software Engineering (three), Design (three), Geospatial Technology (six) and Geospatial Science (two). Mathematics and Computing and Economics (USME) have two and one vacancies, respectively.
The university said the vacancies are provisional and may vary according to its requirements. It also noted that the regularisation of incumbents against posts in Geospatial Science and Geospatial Technology would be considered after the creation, approval and sanction of the posts, which have been borrowed from sanctioned posts in other disciplines. Candidates have been advised to consult the detailed advertisement available on the university’s website for eligibility criteria and other recruitment-related information. DTU, formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering, is a teaching-cum-research university established by the Delhi government under an Act in 2009.