AIIMS selected 214 candidates against 265 advertised faculty positions for its main campus and 155 candidates against 199 advertised posts for the AIIMS-CAPFIMS campus across more than 50 medical and allied specialities. The large-scale recruitment comes months after the Central Government informed Parliament that the institute was facing a substantial shortage of faculty members.
The recruitment drive follows concerns raised over staffing shortages at the country's premier medical institution. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare had warned that the shortage of faculty members was affecting service delivery and increasing the workload on existing doctors. The committee had recommended a time-bound recruitment exercise to fill at least 85 per cent of sanctioned faculty posts.
The appointments are expected to benefit patients waiting for consultations, surgeries, and specialised treatment by strengthening departments that have been operating with significant staff shortages. The additional faculty members are also expected to improve teaching standards, expand research activities, and enhance specialised healthcare services across the institute.
On March 27, Union Health Minister JP Nadda, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, stated that AIIMS New Delhi had 446 vacant faculty posts out of 1,306 sanctioned positions. He also informed the House that 2,542 of the institute's 13,911 sanctioned non-faculty posts remained vacant.
AIIMS officials said some advertised faculty positions are yet to be filled because recruitment results in a few departments remain pending due to ongoing court cases. Once those results are declared, the Department of Anaesthesia could record the highest number of appointments, with 39 faculty positions advertised. Among the results declared so far, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has registered the largest intake, with 20 faculty appointments.
Officials also clarified that eight candidates appeared in both the Assistant Professor and Associate Professor merit lists for the CAPFIMS campus because applicants eligible for the higher position were also permitted to apply for the Assistant Professor post. Since the two recruitment processes were conducted independently and interview panels awarded marks confidentially, candidates who secured qualifying scores in both selections were included in both merit lists. Those selected for both positions will choose one appointment, while the resulting vacancy will be offered to the next eligible candidate in the merit list, ensuring that the overall recruitment process remains unaffected.
The six-month recruitment exercise was conducted through a blockchain-enabled digital platform covering the entire recruitment cycle, including online applications, interview evaluation, publication of results, and appointment procedures. AIIMS officials stated that candidates' assessment scores were protected through one-time password authentication, while predefined algorithms generated the final merit lists. Every evaluation was digitally authenticated and permanently recorded on a permissioned blockchain, creating a tamper-evident audit trail that reduced manual intervention and strengthened transparency throughout the recruitment process.
Officials said the newly appointed faculty members will reinforce patient care, medical education, research, and innovation across a broad range of medical specialities. They described the exercise as one of the institute's largest faculty recruitment drives in recent years, adding that the technology-driven process enabled timely declaration of results while reflecting AIIMS New Delhi's commitment to modernising institutional governance and strengthening one of India's foremost healthcare institutions.
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