2021/11/23 by Haydar Evren, Evren, Haydar, Manshu Khanna +1 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #FOS: Economics and business #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.11963
openalex publication_date 2021/11/23 · openalex created_date 2022/11/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers' Cadre) Act, 2019 provides for reserving teaching vacancies in India's central educational institutions for beneficiaries of its affirmative action policy. Reservation of teaching vacancies had been a contentious issue, and the act was introduced to resolve it after the Supreme Court's solution was met with protests from the Teachers' Union. Our paper demonstrates an impossibility result in the Supreme Court's solution and the act, which are flawed in reserving seats simultaneously at both the university and within its departments. To overcome this impossibility, we propose an alternative solution based on approximate implementation of fractional assignments, offering a promising middle-ground between the two disputed solutions practiced in India. This novel application demonstrates the practical relevance of the approximate implementation approach (Akbarpourand Nikzad(2020)) beyond the constraint structures examined in the literature.