Lok Sabha Question No. 1430 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-01
Subject: Teachers Vacancies
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Kirit Premjibhai Solanki

## Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of School Education & Literacy

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1430 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01 st  July, 2019

## Teachers Vacancies

## 1430. DR. (PROF.) KIRIT PREMJIBHAI SOLANKI :

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 including Gujarat ;

(b) whether such vacancies have increased over the years and if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether the Government has identified reasons behind the vacancies and if so, the details thereof;

(d) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to ensure zero vacancy in schools; and

(e)  whether there have been any modifications to the recruitment procedure to maintain a good quality of teaching staff and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

(a) to  (b):  The  state-wise  vacancies  of  teachers  for  the  year  2018-19  in  respect  of Secondary  and  Senior  Secondary  Education  is  at Annexure-I. Under  Samagra  Shiksha financial assistance is provided for special educators, the number of such special educators State/ UTs wise is at Annexure-II . The data related to vacancy of special educator is not maintained at Central level.

(c  )  to  (e):  The  recruitment  of  teachers  is  a  continuous  process  and  the  vacancies  keep arising  due  to  retirement  and  additional  requirements  on  account  of  enhanced  students' strength.  Education is  in  the  concurrent  list  of  the  Constitution.  The  recruitment,  service conditions  and  deployment  of  teachers  come  under  the  purview  of  the  concerned State/Union Territory (UT) Government. However, Ministry of  Human Resource Development  has  been  requesting  all  the  States  and  UT  Governments  for  filling-up  the vacant  posts  of  teachers  and  their  rational  deployment,  for  which  the  Ministry  issues advisories to all States and UTs from time to time.

Further,  the  Central  Government  through  the  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  Samagra Shiksha, provides assistance to the States and UTs for deployment of additional teachers to maintain appropriate Pupil Teacher Ratio as per the prescribed norms for various levels of schooling, and for induction and in-service training of teachers.

Section  23  (1)  of  the  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act, 2009 stipulates that any person possessing such minimum qualifications, as laid down by an  academic  authority,  authorized  by  the  Central  Government,  by  notification,  shall  be eligible for appointment as a teacher. Accordingly, the Central Government has notified the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) as academic authority for recruitment of teachers.

Additionally, NCTE, mandated for providing quality teacher education to the prospective teachers, has  set  norms  and  standards  for  infrastructure,  instructional facilities  and qualification  and  experience  of  faculty  for  the  teacher  education  institutions  in  which teachers  are  trained.  For  this  purpose,  NCTE  has  revised  its  Recognition,  Norms  and Procedure, Regulations 2014.

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## ANNEXURE-I

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1430 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01 ST  JULY, 2019  ASKED BY DR. (PROF.) KIRIT PREMJIBHAI SOLANKI REGARDING ' TEACHERS VACANCIES'

## Status of Vacancies of Teachers during 2018-19

| Sl. no   | Name of Stat        | Secondary   | Secondary   | Secondary   | Higher Secondary   | Higher Secondary   | Higher Secondary   | Total Vacant   |
|----------|---------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|----------------|
|          |                     | Sanctioned  | In position | Vacant (A)  | Sanctioned         | In position        | Vacant (B)         | (A+B)          |
| 1.       | A &NIslands         | 500         | 500         | 0           | 626                | 622                | 4                  | 4              |
| 2.       | Andhra Pradesh      | 2269        | 2269        | 0           | 1149               | 1107               | 42                 | 42             |
| 3.       | Arunachal Pradesh   | 62862       | 41469       | 21393       | NA                 | NA                 | NA                 | 21393          |
| 4.       | Assam               | 48475       | 45265       | 3210        | 5776               | 5060               | 716                | 3926           |
| 5.       | Bihar               | 48531       | 31365       | 17166       | 28160              | 11418              | 16742              | 33908          |
| 6.       | Chandigarh          | 954         | 778         | 176         | 776                | 550                | 226                | 402            |
| 7.       | Chhattisgarh        | 28127       | 19849       | 8278        | 19215              | 12190              | 7025               | 15303          |
| 8.       | Dadra &Nagar Haveli | 360         | 347         | 13          | 171                | 169                | 2                  | 15             |
| 9.       | Daman &Diu          | 220         | 116         | 104         | 83                 | 50                 | 33                 | 137            |
| 10.      | Delhi               | NA          | NA          | NA          | 26290              | 19458              | 6832               | 6832           |
| 11.      | Goa                 | 527         | 527         | 0           | 145                | 106                | 39                 | 39             |
| 12.      | Gujarat             | 2795        | 1980        | 815         | 1606               | 1407               | 199                | 1014           |
| 13.      | Haryana             | 18135       | 17190       | 945         | 21228              | 11680              | 9548               | 10493          |
| 14.      | Himachal Pradesh    | 9923        | 9265        | 658         | NA                 | NA                 | NA                 | 658            |
| 15.      | Jammu &Kashmir      | 19327       | 4214        | 18346       | 8844               | 1391               | 7453               | 25799          |
| 16.      | Jharkhand           | 22560       | 15375       | 3952        | 9037               | 6711               | 2326               | 6278           |
| 17.      | Karnataka           | 42337       | 36727       | 5610        | 11162              | 8466               | 2696               | 8306           |
| 18.      | Kerala              | 18855       | 17305       | 1550        | 15846              | 13305              | 2541               | 4091           |
| 19.      | Lakshadweep         | NA          | NA          | NA          | NA                 | NA                 | NA                 | 0              |
| 20.      | Madhya Pradesh      | 28716       | 19504       | 9212        | 47762              | 37519              | 10243              | 19455          |
| 21.      | Maharashtra         | 4694        | 4694        | 0           | 612                | 612                | 0                  | 0              |
| 22.      | Manipur             | 1226        | 537         | 2           | 590                | 553                | 37                 | 39             |
| 23.      | Meghalaya           | 539         | 1070        | 156         | 1402               | 1402               | 0                  | 156            |
| 24.      | Mizoram             | 1664        | 1664        | 0           | 453                | 453                | 0                  | 0              |
| 25.      | Nagaland            | 2104        | 1840        | 264         | 445                | 445                | 0                  | 264            |
| 26.      | Odisha              | 32406       | 27977       | 4429        | NA                 | NA                 | NA                 | 4429           |
| 27.      | Puducherry          | 2275        | 1792        | 483         | 658                | 591                | 67                 | 550            |
| 28.      | Punjab              | 18461       | 16910       | 1551        | 17254              | 13192              | 4062               | 5613           |
| 29.      | Rajasthan           | 66643       | 55307       | 11336       | 33407              | 32119              | 1288               | 12624          |
| 30.      | Sikkim              | 1106        | 756         | 350         | 290                | 290                | 0                  | 350            |
| 31.      | Tamil Nadu          | 49380       | 47157       | 2223        | 32010              | 29975              | 2035               | 4258           |
| 32.      | Telangana           | 22604       | 19892       | 2712        | 5984               | 5984               | 0                  | 2712           |
| 33.      | Tripura             | 5099        | 4721        | 378         | 5201               | 4806               | 395                | 773            |
| 34.      | Uttar Pradesh       | 15434       | 5334        | 10100       | 8958               | 2971               | 5987               | 16087          |
| 35.      | Uttarakhand         | 18798       | 14844       | 3954        | 11725              | 8021               | 3704               | 7658           |
| 36.      | West Bengal         | NA          | NA          | NA          | NA                 | NA                 | NA                 | 0              |
| Total    | Total               | 597906      | 468540      | 129366      | 316865             | 232623             | 84242              | 213608         |

ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  TO  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1430 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01 ST  JULY, 2019  ASKED BY DR. (PROF.) KIRIT PREMJIBHAI SOLANKI REGARDING ' TEACHERS VACANCIES'

## Financial assistance provided under Samagra Shiksha for Special Educators

| S. No       | State                       | Number of Special Educators   | Number of Special Educators   | Number of Special Educators   |
|-------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
| S. No       | State                       | Elementary                    | Secondary                     | Total                         |
| 1           | Andaman And Nicobar Islands | 6                             | 10                            | 16                            |
| 2           | Andhra Pradesh              | 1360                          | 0                             | 1360                          |
| 3           | Arunachal Pradesh           | 176                           | 0                             | 176                           |
| 4           | Assam                       | 703                           | 39                            | 742                           |
| 5           | Bihar                       | 1163                          | 0                             | 1163                          |
| 6           | Chandigarh                  | 29                            | 4                             | 33                            |
| 7           | Chhattisgarh                | 161                           | 0                             | 161                           |
| 8           | Dadra And Nagar Haveli      | 3                             | 4                             | 7                             |
| 9           | Daman And Diu               | 2                             | 5                             | 7                             |
| 10          | Delhi                       | 13                            | 1026                          | 1039                          |
| 11          | Goa                         | 9                             | 10                            | 19                            |
| 12          | Gujarat                     | 1231                          | 1073                          | 2304                          |
| 13          | Haryana                     | 158                           | 435                           | 593                           |
| 14          | Himachal Pradesh            | 126                           | 18                            | 144                           |
| 15          | Jammu And Kashmir           | 48                            | 58                            | 106                           |
| 16          | Jharkhand                   | 333                           | 0                             | 333                           |
| 17          | Karnataka                   | 408                           | 408                           | 816                           |
| 18          | Kerala                      | 1503                          | 1365                          | 2868                          |
| 19          | Lakshadweep                 | 12                            | 5                             | 17                            |
| 20          | Madhya Pradesh              | 458                           | 0                             | 458                           |
| 21          | Maharashtra                 | 2762                          | 2097                          | 4859                          |
| 22          | Manipur                     | 92                            | 51                            | 143                           |
| 23          | Meghalaya                   | 78                            | 30                            | 108                           |
| 24          | Mizoram                     | 78                            | 45                            | 123                           |
| 25          | Nagaland                    | 39                            | 0                             | 39                            |
| 26          | Odisha                      | 632                           | 314                           | 946                           |
| 27          | Puducherry                  | 16                            | 8                             | 24                            |
| 28          | Punjab                      | 462                           | 22                            | 484                           |
| 29          | Rajasthan                   | 580                           | 0                             | 580                           |
| 30          | Sikkim                      | 53                            | 6                             | 59                            |
| 31          | Tamil Nadu                  | 2196                          | 210                           | 2406                          |
| 32          | Telangana                   | 1184                          | 0                             | 1184                          |
| 33          | Tripura                     | 78                            | 0                             | 78                            |
| 34          | Uttar Pradesh               | 2340                          | 500                           | 2840                          |
| 35          | Uttarakhand                 | 0                             | 47                            | 47                            |
| 36          | West Bengal                 | 1192                          | 0                             | 1192                          |
| Grand Total | Grand Total                 | 19684                         | 7790                          | 27474                         |