Lok Sabha Question No. 5879 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-04-10
Subject: Reasons for Teachers’ Vacancies
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: A.P. JITHENDER REDDY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5879

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 10 th   April, 2017

## Reasons for Teachers' Vacancies

## 5879. SHRI A.P. JITHENDER REDDY:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  details  of  vacant  posts  in  teaching  staff  (PGT,  TGT  and  Special  Educators)  across schools all over the country, State/UT-wise;
- (b) whether such vacancies have increased over the years and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)  whether the Government has identified reasons behind such large vacancies and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)  the  steps  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  zero  vacancies  in schools; and
- (e) whether there have been any modifications to the recruitment procedure to maintain good quality of teaching staff and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) & (b) : The recruitment and service conditions of Government teachers are primarily in the domain of respective State Governments and UT  Administrations. The Central Government through the flagship programme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (RMSA)  at  elementary  level  and  Secondary  level  provides assistance  to  State/UT  government  for  additional  teachers  to  maintain  appropriate  Pupil Teacher Ratio as per the prescribed norms for various levels of schooling. The vacancy of teachers has reduced from 9,70,205 in the year 2015-16 to 9,48,803 in the year 2016-17 at elementary and Secondary  levels. The details of the vacant posts of teachers in Elementary schools  is  at Annexure-I and  in  Secondary  Schools  at Annexure-II. The  status  of  vacant posts of Special Educators approved under RMSA is at Annexure -III .

(c):  The  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009  has  been enacted  for  universalization  of  elementary  education  i.e.  for  classes  I  to  VIII  across  the country.  The  RTE  Act,  2009  in  its  Schedule  lays  down  pupil  teacher  ratio  (PTR)  for  both primary and upper primary schools. At primary level the PTR should be 30:1 and at the upper primary level it should be 35:1. The RMSA framework stipulates that the PTR at secondary level should be 30:1. As per Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) 201516 (Provisional), the PTR at national level for elementary schools is 24:1 and for secondary schools  it  is  27:1.  The  PTR  in  most  of  the  States  and  UTs  is  found  to  be  satisfactory. However, since some schools have lesser number of teachers than the required PTR, it is clear  that  while  there  is  sufficient  number  of  teachers,  the  main  issue  is  of  their  optimum deployment in schools.

The reasons for shortage of teachers are procedural delays in teacher recruitment processes, non availability of professionally qualified persons and insufficient number of candidates not qualifying  the  Teacher  Eligibility  Test(TET)  conducted  by  the  appropriate  Government  and lack of subject specialist teacher in certain areas.

(d) & (e): Under section 23(1) of Right to Education Act 2009, the Central Government has notified National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE) as the academic authority to lay down minimum qualification for a person eligible to become an elementary teacher. Additionally, the appropriate  authority  is  also  mandated  to  conduct  the  Teacher  Education  Test  (TET)  to ensure that qualified persons enter the teaching profession. Further, under SSA and RMSA, various type of training programme have been introduced to improve quality of teachers which includes  in-service  teacher  training  to  Headmasters/Principal,  Master  Trainers  Training, Training of Key Resource Persons, Induction Training of Teachers, Headmaster's/Principals Professional  Development/  Management  and  Leadership  training  of  Headmasters  &  State Resource Groups (SRGs).

Additionally,  the  Central  Government  has  been  consistently  pursuing  the  matter  of expeditious  recruitment  and  redeployment  of  teachers  with  the  States  and  UTs  at  various fora. Advisories on this issue have also been issued to States and UTs from time to time.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a)&(b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5879  ASKED BY SHRI  A.P.  JITHENDER  REDDY, HON'BLE MP TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.04.2017 REGARDING 'REASONS FOR TEACHERS' VACANCIES'.

Status on TGT under SSA  in 2016-17

| Sl. No.   | State/UT                  | Sanctioned     | Working        | Vacancies    |
|-----------|---------------------------|----------------|----------------|--------------|
| 1         | Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Total 1608     | Total 1482     | Total 126    |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh            | 37841          | 33836          | 4005         |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh         | 4346           | 4067           | 279          |
| 4         | Assam                     | 69658          | 52721          | 16937        |
| 5         | Bihar                     | 186287         | 103054         | 83233        |
| 6         |                           | 3214           | 2387           |              |
| 7         | Chandigarh Chhattisgarh   |                | 80315          | 827 13553    |
|           |                           | 93868          | 599            | 102          |
| 8         | Dadra & Nagar Haveli      | 701            |                |              |
| 9         | Daman & Diu               | 225            | 181            | 44           |
| 10        | Delhi                     | 27636          | 18566          | 9070         |
| 11        | Goa                       | 2550           | 2550           | 0            |
| 12        | Gujarat                   | 92286          | 75127          | 17159        |
| 13        | Haryana                   | 25811          | 23714          | 2097         |
| 14        | Himachal Pradesh          | 20704          | 19774          | 930          |
| 15        | Jammu & Kashmir           | 43098          | 40662          | 2436         |
| 16        | Jharkhand                 | 51625          | 22070          | 29555        |
| 17        | Karnataka                 | 157985         | 148679         | 9306         |
| 18        | Kerala                    | 67822          | 67305          | 517          |
| 19        | Lakshadweep               | 347            | 312            | 35           |
| 20        | Madhya Pradesh            | 119757         | 93839          | 25918        |
| 21        | Maharashtra               | 77938          | 68985          | 8953         |
| 22        | Manipur                   | 4906           | 4542           | 364          |
| 23        | Meghalaya                 | 7189           | 7180           | 9            |
| 24        | Mizoram                   | 7044           | 6708           | 336          |
| 25        | Nagaland                  | 4964           | 4841           | 123          |
| 26        | Odisha                    | 80537          | 80537          | 0            |
| 27        | Puducherry                | 1531           | 1531           | 0            |
| 28        | Punjab                    | 43480          | 32045          | 11435        |
| 29        | Rajasthan                 | 155096         | 127783         | 27313        |
| 30        | Sikkim                    | 2292           | 2292           | 0            |
| 31        | Tamil Nadu                | 73005          | 61874          | 11131        |
| 32        | Telangana                 | 28156          | 25519          | 2637         |
| 33        | Tripura                   | 12115          | 11642          | 473          |
| 34        | Uttar Pradesh             | 161399         | 141056         | 20343        |
| 35        | Uttarakhand               | 14586          | 11595          | 2991         |
| 36        | West Bengal Total         | 188520 1870127 | 142443 1521813 | 46077 348314 |

Source: PAB  2016-17

## ANNEXURE-II

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a)  &  (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5879  ASKED BY SHRI  A.P.  JITHENDER  REDDY, HON'BLE MP TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.04.2017 REGARDING 'REASONS FOR TEACHERS' VACANCIES'.

Status on PGT under RMSA (under State Government) in 2016-17

| SL. No   | States/UTs               |   Sanctioned |   Working |   Vacancies |
|----------|--------------------------|--------------|-----------|-------------|
| 1        | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |          832 |       793 |          39 |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh           |        61793 |     56737 |        5056 |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh        |         1725 |      1665 |          60 |
| 4        | Assam                    |        43230 |     41557 |        1673 |
| 5        | Bihar                    |        47622 |     30437 |       17185 |
| 6        | Chandigarh               |         2452 |      1996 |         456 |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh             |        24210 |     17194 |        7016 |
| 8        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |          360 |       290 |          70 |
| 9        | Daman &Diu               |          267 |       162 |           5 |
| 10       | Delhi                    |        15110 |     13772 |        1338 |
| 11       | Goa                      |          436 |       338 |          98 |
| 12       | Gujarat                  |         2392 |      1669 |         803 |
| 13       | Haryana                  |        18135 |     17288 |         847 |
| 14       | Himachal Pradesh         |         9461 |      9094 |         367 |
| 15       | Jammu and Kashmir        |        17772 |     13728 |        4044 |
| 16       | Jharkhand                |        22604 |      6391 |       16213 |
| 17       | Karnataka                |        42915 |     38360 |        4555 |
| 18       | Kerala                   |        18471 |     17213 |        1258 |
| 19       | Lakshadweep              |          101 |        59 |          42 |
| 20       | Madhya Pradesh           |        52402 |     46813 |        5589 |
| 21       | Maharashtra              |         9016 |      8706 |         187 |
| 22       | Manipur                  |         2832 |      2126 |         706 |
| 23       | Meghalaya                |          523 |       472 |          51 |
| 24       | Mizoram                  |         1866 |      1866 |           0 |
| 25       | Nagaland                 |          942 |       738 |         204 |
| 26       | Odisha                   |        29173 |     27384 |        1789 |
| 27       | Puducherry               |         1303 |      1149 |         154 |
| 28       | Punjab                   |        29187 |     25021 |        4205 |
| 29       | Rajasthan                |        68789 |     59000 |        9789 |
| 30       | Sikkim                   |          885 |      1207 |           0 |
| 31       | Tamil Nadu               |        56355 |     52345 |        4010 |
| 32       | Telangana                |        43746 |     40602 |        3144 |
| 33       | Tripura                  |         6371 |      4195 |        2176 |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh            |        14187 |      7093 |        7094 |
| 35       | Uttarakhand              |        18850 |     15507 |        3343 |
| 36       | West Bengal              |        57877 |     54537 |        3340 |
| Total    | Total                    |       724192 |    617504 |      106906 |

Source: PAB 2016-17

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a)  &  (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5879 ASKED BY SHRI  A.P.  JITHENDER  REDDY, HON'BLE MP TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.04.2017 REGARDING 'REASONS FOR TEACHERS' VACANCIES'.

DETAILS OF SPECIAL EDUCATOR under RMSA in 2016-17

| S.No.   | States/UTs               |   Sanctioned |   Working |   Vacancies |
|---------|--------------------------|--------------|-----------|-------------|
| 1       | Andaman& Nicobar Islands |            3 |         0 |           3 |
| 2       | Andhra Pradesh           |          860 |         0 |         860 |
| 3       | Arunachal Pradesh        |            0 |         0 |           0 |
| 4       | Assam                    |           57 |        35 |          22 |
| 5       | Bihar                    |          572 |         0 |         572 |
| 6       | Chandigarh               |           10 |         6 |           4 |
| 7       | Chhattisgarh             |          146 |         0 |         146 |
| 8       | Dadra And Nagar Haveli   |            4 |         1 |           3 |
| 9       | Daman And Diu            |            4 |         4 |           0 |
| 10      | Delhi                    |          576 |       210 |         366 |
| 11      | Goa                      |           36 |         2 |          34 |
| 12      | Gujarat                  |         1125 |      1125 |           0 |
| 13      | Haryana                  |          470 |       300 |         170 |
| 14      | Himachal Pradesh         |           36 |        18 |          18 |
| 15      | Jammu And Kashmir        |          201 |         0 |         201 |
| 16      | Jharkhand                |          131 |         0 |         131 |
| 17      | Karnataka                |          408 |        71 |         337 |
| 18      | Kerala                   |          865 |       725 |         140 |
| 19      | Lakshadweep              |            5 |         0 |           5 |
| 20      | Madhya Pradesh           |           51 |         0 |          51 |
| 21      | Maharashtra              |         1668 |         0 |        1668 |
| 22      | Manipur                  |           49 |        49 |           0 |
| 23      | Meghalaya                |           30 |         0 |          30 |
| 24      | Mizoram                  |           45 |        45 |           0 |
| 25      | Nagaland                 |            0 |         0 |           0 |
| 26      | Odisha                   |            0 |         0 |           0 |
| 27      | Puducherry               |           12 |         0 |          12 |
| 28      | Punjab                   |          166 |        20 |         146 |
| 29      | Rajasthan                |          326 |       115 |         211 |
| 30      | Sikkim                   |           23 |         4 |          19 |
| 31      | Tamil Nadu               |          412 |       160 |         252 |
| 32      | Telangana                |            0 |         0 |           0 |
| 33      | Tripura                  |            0 |         0 |           0 |
| 34      | Uttar Pradesh            |          311 |       311 |           0 |
| 35      | Uttarakhand              |           95 |        36 |          59 |
| 36      | West Bengal              |          483 |        08 |         475 |
|         | Total                    |         9180 |      3245 |        5935 |

Source: PAB (2016-17)