Nine thousand teacher posts will be filled in the state, even after this 70 thousand posts will remain vacant

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Highlights

There are about 79 thousand vacancies in government schools. There is only one teacher in 18 thousand schools. About 26 thousand posts were filled in five years.

Navdunia Representative, Bhopal. Recruitment will be done for nine thousand teacher posts in the government schools of the state. Secondary and primary teacher recruitment exams will be conducted in August. These include posts of subject teachers as well as sports and singing-instrumental teachers.

Teachers of Hindi, English, Sanskrit language, mathematics, science and social sciences will be recruited for secondary and primary schools. Along with this, teachers of singing, playing instruments, dance and sports will also be recruited. MP Employees Selection Board (ESB) has prepared the exam calendar.

Preparations are on to conduct the secondary and primary teacher recruitment exam in August. Candidates who have passed the eligibility test in 2018 and 2023 will also be able to participate in it. Due to the shortage of teachers in the government schools of the state, the level of education is falling.

The reason for this is that about 79 thousand posts of higher secondary, secondary and primary teachers are vacant in government schools. However, even after recruitment on nine thousand posts this year, about 70 thousand posts will remain vacant. At the same time, 18 thousand government schools in the state are being run with the help of one teacher.

About 26 thousand posts were filled in five years

The recruitment process for higher secondary and secondary teachers was started in 2018. The exam results were declared in 2019. 40 thousand teachers were to be appointed in this, but the department approved only 20 and a half thousand posts and this process could not be completed even after five years. Even now, after recruitment on about 26 thousand posts of higher secondary, secondary and primary teachers, about 79 thousand posts remained vacant.

State-wide data

Number of government schools- 1 lakh 22 thousand

Number of students- 1 crore 10 lakh

Number of sanctioned posts of teachers- three lakh 16 hundred 20

Number of working posts of teachers- 2 lakh 26 thousand 234

Number of vacant posts of teachers -79 thousand 496

Number of teachers appointed in five years- 26 thousand

Category wise data

higher secondary teacher

Sanctioned Post- 42,620

Employed -21,134

Vacant Posts- 21,496

Secondary Teacher

Sanctioned post- 1,11,000

Employed -61,000

Vacant Posts- 50,000

Primary Teacher

Sanctioned Post- 1,48,000

Employed – 1,40,000

Vacant posts- 8,000

They say that

-The shortage of teachers in government schools will be met. Information about the vacant posts has been sent to the government. By this year, recruitment will be done on nine thousand posts.

Shilpa Gupta, Commissioner, Directorate of Public Instruction