According to the education ministry, over 12,000 teaching posts are vacant in Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country, while over 9,000 teachers have been hired on contract basis. The maximum number of vacant teaching positions are in Tamil Nadu (1,162), Madhya Pradesh (1,066) and Karnataka (1,006).
As of 2021, the vacancies for teaching positions in centrally managed Navodaya Vidyalayas (NVs) are 3,156 across the country, with Jharkhand (230) having the highest and 215 vacancies in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. Union Minister of State for Education Annapurna Devi shared the figures in reply to a question in Lok Sabha.
“There are 12,044 teaching posts and 1,332 non-teaching posts vacant in Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country. Vacancies arise due to transfer, retirement from time to time,” said Devi. Devi said, “The filling up of the vacancies is a continuous process and efforts are made to fill up the vacancies as per the provisions of the respective recruitment rules.”
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“Teachers are also engaged on contractual basis by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) for a temporary period to ensure that the teaching-learning process is not disrupted,” he said. A total of 9,161 teachers are employed in KVs across the country on contract basis.
Apart from the top three with over a thousand vacancies, there are seven other states with over 600 teaching posts vacant, including West Bengal (964), Odisha (886) and Maharashtra (705). Category-wise there are 457 teaching posts reserved for OBCs which are lying vacant as of 2021, followed by 337 posts for SCs in KVs. 163 EWS and 168 ST posts are also vacant. There are 194 EWS, 676 OBC, 470 SC and 234 ST teaching posts vacant in Navodaya Vidyalayas.
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