Lok Sabha Question No. 24 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-07-22
Subject: Shortage of Teachers in Schools
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri Lumbaram Choudhary

## † 24. SHRI LUMBA RAM:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether according to a report, more than 11.16 lakh posts of teachers are vacant in the schools of the country including the State of Rajasthan out of which about seventy-nine percent of the posts are vacant in rural areas;

(b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;

(c) the total number of female teachers in the country including Rajasthan, State-wise; and

(d) the steps taken by the Government so far to overcome the shortage of teachers in the country including Rajasthan particularly in rural areas?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

(a) & (b): Education is a subject in the concurrent list of the Constitution and an overwhelming majority of schools are under the administrative control of respective State and Union Territory Governments. It is their responsibility to ensure that the vacancies are filled up in time bound and transparent manner. 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  and  the onus  of  filling  up  of  these  posts  from  time-to-time  falls  on  the  respective  State/Union  Territory Governments. The data regarding vacancies of teachers in rural areas are maintained by the respective State Governments/Union Territory administrations.

(c):  The  data  regarding number of female teachers in the country, as per UDISE+ 2021-22, are given at ANNEXURE.

(d): The Ministry of Education requests the State and UT Governments for filling-up the vacant posts of teachers and their rational deployment, through review meetings and advisories 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 (PTR) as per the prescribed norms for various levels of schooling.

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO:- 24

ANSWERED ON-22/07/2024

## Shortage of Teachers in Schools

## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN PART (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 24 FOR 22 ND  JULY, 2024 REGARDING "SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS" ASKED BY HON'BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SHRI LUMBA RAM.

|   S. No. | Name of the State/UT   | No. of female teachers   |
|----------|------------------------|--------------------------|
|        1 | A &NIslands            | 3,476                    |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh         | 162,047                  |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh      | 11,502                   |
|        4 | Assam                  | 144,752                  |
|        5 | Bihar                  | 234,716                  |
|        6 | Chandigarh             | 7,529                    |
|        7 | Chhattisgarh           | 124,909                  |
|        8 | DNH&DD                 | 2,885                    |
|        9 | Delhi                  | 111,448                  |
|       10 | Goa                    | 11,139                   |
|       11 | Gujarat                | 203,729                  |
|       12 | Haryana                | 148,544                  |
|       13 | Himachal Pradesh       | 51,947                   |
|       14 | Jammu &Kashmir         | 80,327                   |
|       15 | Jharkhand              | 83,121                   |
|       16 | Karnataka              | 251,204                  |
|       17 | Kerala                 | 213,285                  |
|       18 | Ladakh                 | 3,122                    |
|       19 | Lakshadweep            | 423                      |
|       20 | Madhya Pradesh         | 283,227                  |
|       21 | Maharashtra            | 362,393                  |
|       22 | Manipur                | 23,180                   |
|       23 | Meghalaya              | 32,227                   |
|       24 | Mizoram                | 11,010                   |
|       25 | Nagaland               | 17,448                   |
|       26 | Odisha                 | 153,894                  |
|       27 | Puducherry             | 9,274                    |
|       28 | Punjab                 | 193,433                  |
|       29 | Rajasthan              | 287,350                  |
|       30 | Sikkim                 | 8,170                    |
|       31 | Tamil Nadu             | 427,603                  |
|       32 | Telangana              | 194,415                  |
|       33 | Tripura                | 12,734                   |
|       34 | Uttar Pradesh          | 688,755                  |
|       35 | Uttarakhand            | 67,764                   |
|       36 | West Bengal            | 253,750                  |
|       37 | TOTAL                  | 4,876,732                |

(Source: UDISE+ 2021-22)

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