Financial Express: Indore: Thursday, May 18, 2017.
Nearly 23 per
cent posts of teachers, from primary to secondary level, are lying vacant in
1,100 central schools situated in various parts of the country, a RTI reply has
revealed. The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghthan (KVS) said that as on March 31,
9,749 posts are lying vacant in these schools.
It was
informed that 42,640 posts from primary to higher secondary level have been
sanctioned in central schools. Against it, at present there are 32,891
teachers, while 9,749 posts are lying vacant, which means 23 per cent posts are
vacant, it said.
KVS further
informed that out of the total sanctioned posts of 14,946 primary teachers
(PRT), only 11,322 teachers were working leaving a gap of 3,624 vacancies.
Against the sanctioned post of 17,298-Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT), 13,269
are filled while rest 4,029 are vacant.
Similarly,
against the sanctioned post of 10,396 Post Graduate Teachers (PGT), 8,300 are
filled while 2,096 are lying vacant, revealed the RTI reply.