varanasi the banaras hindu university bhu one of the top ranking universities of the country is lagging behind in implementation of reservation policy properly particularly in filling the teaching positions in reserved categories however the university authorities claim that the central educational institutions reservation in admission act 2006 is being followed in admission process in proper way we are fully implementing the central educational institutions reservation in admission act 2006 in the admission process in our university said the registrar prof vk kumra the deputy registrar academic manoj pandey said that the exact number of new students admitted for the 201213 academic session would arrive in september after the compilation of data from all departments however according to the distribution of seats in various categories mentioned in the information bulletin for the admission in under graduate courses 201213 there would be a total intake of 6845 students out of whom 3457 belong to general category 1023 belong to schedule castes category 517 belong to schedule tribes category and 1848 belong to other backward class category but the picture of reservation status in teaching staff is quite different and away from the reservation provisions according to the bhu annual report 201011 there are 668 professors in bhu in general category while the number of professors in the sc category is only two besides there are 18 professors in minority category there is no professor in st and obc categories the figure of readerassociate professor in general category is 327 while the numbers of readersassociate professors in sc st and minority categories are 22 3 and 10 respectively the university has no readerassociate professor in obc category similarly the numbers of associate professorsselection grade lecturers are 28 in general and 2 in sc categories the report says that there are 214 assistant professors out of whom 176 belong to general category 22 belong to sc category 6 belong to st category 9 belong to minority category and one belongs to physically handicapped category similarly the numbers of assistant professors senior scale lecturers are 340 in general category 69 in sc category 19 in st category 15 in obc category 6 in minority category and one in ph category however according to the annual report some direct appointments of teaching staff were also made during april 2010 to march 2011 as per records 11 professors were appointed in general category only besides 32 readersassociate professors 29 general and 3 sc and 95 lecturersassistant professors 47 general 29 sc 9 st and 10 obc were also appointed during this period as per the provision of reservation the seats ensured for sc is 15 for st 75 and 27 for obc it may be mentioned here that the bhu founded by mahamana madan mohan malaviya in 1916 is one of the most prestigious central universities in the country about 28000 students from all over india and abroad are receiving education in various disciplines it may be mentioned here that on the complaint made by general