Lok Sabha Question No. 1726 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-13
Subject: Unfilled Teaching/Non-Teaching Staff in Government Schools/Colleges in Rajasthan
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:- 1726

ANSWERED ON-13/02/2023

## Unfilled Teaching/Non-Teaching Staff in Government Schools/Colleges in Rajasthan

## 1726. COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  number  of  unfilled  vacancies  for  teaching  and  non-teaching  staff  across  Government  schools and colleges, for the last three years, especially in Rajasthan;
- (b) the steps taken by the Government to fill up the vacancies in a timely manner;
- (c) the details regarding the progress on skill training for teachers in line with the National Education Policy, 2020; and
- (d) the details of the training imparted and the number of students benefiting from the said training?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (Dr. SUBHAS SARKAR)

- (a) Recruitment of teachers in schools is a continuous process as vacancies keep arising due to factors like retirement, resignation and additional requirements on account of enhanced students' strength/new schools.  Education  is  a  subject  in  the  concurrent  list  of  the  Constitution.  Schools,  other  than  those owned/funded by the Central Government, are under the administrative control of respective State and Union Territory  Governments  and  the  data  in  respect  of  the  vacancies  of  teachers  in  these  schools, including the State of Rajasthan, are maintained by respective State/Union Territory Governments. The number  of  unfilled  vacancies  for  teaching  and  non-teaching  staff  in  the  schools  under  the  State Government of Rajasthan in the past three years, as furnished by the Rajasthan State Education Council is given below:

|   Year | Number of Unfilled Teaching and Non-Teaching Posts (as on 01 st December)   |
|--------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   2020 | 65,545                                                                      |
|   2021 | 69,801                                                                      |
|   2022 | 109,462                                                                     |

In so far as Government colleges are concerned including in the State of Rajasthan, a majority of them are established by the State Governments/Trusts/Registered Societies/Private Entities, etc. and the data in respect of the vacancies of teachers in these colleges are maintained by the respective State/Union Territory Governments.

(b) The Department of School Education and Literacy, from time to time, through review meetings and advisories,  requests  the  State  and  UT  Governments  for  filling  up  vacant  posts  of  teachers  and  their rational  deployment.  Further,  the  Central  Government  through  the  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of Samagra Shiksha, provides financial assistance  to the States and UTs to maintain appropriate PupilTeacher Ratio (PTR) for various levels of schooling, as per norms prescribed in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, as amended from time to time.

The University Grants Commission (UGC), has prepared the Guidelines for Recruitment of Faculty in Universities, Colleges and Institutions, Deemed to be Universities outlining the selection procedure and the time frame for recruitment. The Universities have also been requested to take steps to ensure that the vacancies in the University as well as in the Colleges affiliated to University are filled up at the earliest.

- (c)  &  (d)  The  Department  of  School  Education  and  Literacy  has  launched  a  National  Mission  to improve learning outcomes at the Elementary level through NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads'  and  Teachers'  Holistic  Advancement)  an  integrated  Teacher  Training  Programme.  During 2019-20, 23,137 Key Resource Persons and 16,99,991 School Heads and Teachers were trained across States and UTs under NISHTHA through face to face mode. In view of COVID pandemic, NISHTHA was  launched  online  on  the  DIKSHA  portal  covering  18  courses  in  11  languages.  Around  24  lakh teachers have completed NISHTHA online training at elementary level till June, 2021. The NISHTHA programme has been further expanded to NISHTHA 2.0 for secondary level teachers and NISHTHA 3.0 for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) for teachers of pre-primary to class V.

So  far  as  teachers  in  Colleges  are  concerned,  there  are  66  Human  Resource  Development  Centres (HRDCs,  formerly  known  as  ASCs)  of  UGC  all  over  India,  which  are  conducting  Orientation Programmes  of  three  weeks  duration  for  newly  appointed   lecturers  and  Refresher  Courses  of  two weeks duration for in-service teachers. Also, Gurudakshta Induction Programme of  UGC was launched in 2019 for training Faculty & Academic Staff in Universities & Colleges to orient them on various generic aspects of teaching learning, instructional  methodologies, assessment  and evaluation techniques, ICT enabled teaching learning, and equip them with knowledge of University rules and regulations, basics of governance and administration.

Total No. of trained teachers in all programmes of UGC for the year 2019-20 to 2021-22 are as under:

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| Year    | Total No. of Trained teachers   |
|---------|---------------------------------|
| 2019-20 | 30,947                          |
| 2020-21 | 48,509                          |
| 2021-22 | 33,587                          |