Whose University?A public-interest tracker of academic work in India.

About this project

Whose University? is a tracker of academic-work openings in India, paired with an investigation of how the state administers — and fails to administer — its constitutional reservation regime in faculty hiring at centrally-funded higher-education institutions. The site runs two registers in parallel.

Vacancies

A live feed of advertised positions across Central Universities, the IITs, IIMs, NITs, IIITs, AIIMS, and the major private universities. Scraped from each institution's career page, occasionally PDF-parsed from notification documents, and (rarely) hand-transcribed from recruitment cards circulated outside the institutions' own websites — those carry a yellow ⚑ manual entry badge so a candidate can weigh what they are reading. Confidence is graded on every listing.

The Gap

A research treatment of the parliamentary record on faculty vacancy in centrally-funded higher-education institutions, September 2020 to March 2026. 546 questions tabled across the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha; one, RS Q.365 of 23 July 2025 (asked by the Leader of Opposition, Shri Mallikarjun Kharge), surfaced rank-by-category vacancy data. The rest were answered with cumulative "Mission Mode" recruitment counters that conflate appointment with vacancy. The Gap names this substitution and the institutions that perform it.

Methodology

Listings. ~185 institutions in the registry. Per-site parsers in scraper/parsers/; an HTTP cache; a single shared SSRF guard. Outputs land in docs/data/current.json, which this page hydrates on load. Daily sweep on a GitHub Actions cron; the full scraper code is in the public repository.

The Gap corpus. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha questions crawled from elibrary.sansad.in (LS, DSpace API) and rsdoc.nic.in (RS), filtered by Education-ministry tag and topical keyword, consolidated into a 546-document corpus with PDF text extracts. Charts are computed from this corpus and individually sourced in the bibliography at the foot of that tab. The corpus itself is not redistributed through this site (the primary documents are public on sansad.in); only the analysis is.

No warranty; verify before applying

Listings are scraped from official institutional websites, parsed automatically, and occasionally hand-transcribed from circulated recruitment cards. Errors are possible — extraction errors, stale data, missing posts, transcription gaps. Always verify against the official advertisement and application portal before applying. This site does not replace the original notification; it surfaces it.

Independence and use at own risk

The site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any institution listed. The maintainer makes no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, or availability of any position. Use of this information is at the reader's own risk. The site collects no personal data about visitors; it stores no application records and acts as an index, not an intermediary.

Analytical content

Material in The Gap is the maintainer's research interpretation of publicly available parliamentary records, court orders, and official Ministry of Education communications, all of which are cited in the source bibliography on that page. It is offered as research-and-reference public-interest commentary; it is not legal advice and not an allegation against any named individual.

Citation and licence

Code: MIT. Data and corpus: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cite as: Whose University?, whoseuniversity.org, accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

Corrections

Open an issue at github.com/commonsensellp/academiaindia, or write to the maintainer.

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