DU panel flags irregularities in St Stephen's College faculty recruitment

Premises of St Stephen’s College. File | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

A Delhi University committee has flagged violations of shortlisting criteria in the recruitment of assistant professors at St Stephen's College and recommended that the institution follow the university's recruitment rules and regulations.

The committee, constituted following deliberations at the university's Executive Council meeting on April 29, 2026, concluded that the college had made appointments in violation of the shortlisting criteria approved by the university's statutory bodies, according to its report.

The college maintained that the university's shortlisting criteria were advisory in nature and that, as a minority institution, it could determine the mode and manner of selecting teachers.

The Committee report, however, stated that the deviations had allegedly allowed candidates who would otherwise have been ineligible to be shortlisted for interviews.

The committee recommended that St Stephen's College, as a constituent college of Delhi University, follow the university's recruitment rules to maintain uniformity and consistency in the appointment of teachers.

The university had, through a letter dated April 29, advised the college to refrain from issuing appointment letters while the matter was examined. A five-member committee was subsequently constituted under the chairmanship of Prof Inder Mohan Kapahy.