New Delhi: On Thursday, senior Congressman P Chidambaram criticised the Centre for the over 10,000 vacant teaching posts at central universities, IITs, and IIMs, calling it "another year-end gift from the Modi government."

In a written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan revealed that 6,535 full-time teaching seats were vacant in government institutions, 403 in IIMs, and 3,876 in IITs.

Chidambaram slammed the administration, saying, "Another year-end gift from the Modi government: federal institutions, IITs, and IIMs have over 10,000 teaching positions open. 4126 of these are designated for Schedule Caste, Schedule Tribes, and Other Backward Class people."

"We assumed that their major goal was to teach through teachers. I'm not sure what these institutions would do if they didn't have enough teachers "On Twitter, the former Union minister stated.

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