<span style="color: #222222;">Over 5,000 posts of faculty members are vacant in Central Universities across the country, while such vacancies in IITs is around 2,800.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">An HRD Ministry official said, there are 1,870 vacant positions in National Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology while the figure is 258 in Indian Institutes of Management.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The official said, rise in vacancies is a continuous process due to various reasons, including retirement, resignation and additional requirements on account of enhanced students' strength. </span><br />''