Lok Sabha Question No. 1715 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-13
Subject: Vacancies of Academic and Non-Academic Staff in Government Schools and Colleges
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Kunwar Danish Ali

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:- 1715

ANSWERED ON-13/02/2023

## Vacancies of Academic and Non-Academic Staff in Government Schools and Colleges

## † 1715. KUNWAR DANISH ALI:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  vacancies  of  academic  and  non-academic  staff  in  the  Government  schools  and  colleges  of  the country particularly in Uttar Pradesh;
- (b) the measures taken by the Government to fill up the vacancies on time; and
- (c) the progress made in skill training of teachers keeping in view the National Education Policy, 2020?

## 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 Uttar  Pradesh,  are  maintained  by  respective  State/Union  Territory  Governments.  Similarly,  in  so  far  as Government colleges are concerned, 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.

The Government of Uttar Pradesh has reported following vacancies of teachers under Samagra Shiksha for the Year 2022-23:-

| Sl. No   | Head             | Sanctioned   | Working   | Vacant   |
|----------|------------------|--------------|-----------|----------|
|          |                  | 2022-23      | 2022-23   | 2022-23  |
| 1        | Elementary       | 579622       | 453594    | 126028   |
| 2        | Secondary        | 15993        | 9785      | 6208     |
| 3        | Higher Secondary | 6701         | 6701      | 0        |
|          | Total            | 602316       | 470080    | 132236   |

(Source: PRABANDH portal)

Vacancies of teachers under Samagra Shiksha for the Academic Year 2022-23 as reported by respective State Governments and UT Administrations in the country are given below:-

| Sl. No   | Head             | Sanctioned   | Working   | Vacant   |
|----------|------------------|--------------|-----------|----------|
|          |                  | 2022-23      | 2022-23   | 2022-23  |
| 1        | Elementary       | 4810226      | 4062661   | 747565   |
| 2        | Secondary        | 967124       | 820790    | 146334   |
| 3        | Higher Secondary | 494030       | 401364    | 92666    |
|          | Total            | 6271380      | 5284815   | 986565   |

(Source: PRABANDH portal)

- (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 Pupil-Teacher 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)  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 is as under:

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