Vacant Teaching Posts in Schools/Colleges/Universities

LOK SABHA 

Vacant Teaching Posts in Schools/Colleges/Universities

2511. SHRI ANUBHAV MOHANTY:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) the recent data on the number of vacant teaching positions in Schools, Colleges and Central Universities during the last three years and the current year, State/ Year-wise;

(b) the latest official data on the vacancies in teaching positions sanctioned for the candidates of the Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribes (ST)/Other Backward Class (OBC)/ Economically Weaker sections (EWS) in the aforementioned institutions during the above-said period, State/Year-wise;

(c) whether the Government has adopted any specific and time bound measures to fill these vacancies, especially vacancies in the posts sanctioned for SC/ST/ OBC/EWS communities; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reason therefor?

(SMT ANNPURNA DEVI)

(a) to (d): The recruitment of teachers is a continuous process. The vacancies keep arising due to a number of factors including retirement of teachers and additional requirements on account of the enhanced students’ strength. Education is a subject in the Concurrent List of the Constitution and the recruitment,  service conditions and deployment of teachers come under the purview of the concerned State/Union Territory (UT) Government. Also, the Ministry of Education requests Educational Institutions/State Governments/Union Territory Governments to fill up vacancies on a mission mode from time to time as a majority of Educational Institutions come under the functional domain of the respective State/Union Territory Governments.

So far as 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 details of the vacant teaching posts in Central Schools under Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan & Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti are at Annexure-I and those in Central Universities are at Annexure-II.

ANNEXURE-I

ANNEXURE-I REFERRED TO IN PARTS (a) to (d) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2511 FOR 01st AUGUST, 2022 ASKED BY HON’BLE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SHRI ANUBHAV MOHANTY REGARDING “VACANT TEACHING POSTS IN SCHOOLS/COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES”.