Nearly 50% teaching posts vacant in Nuh govt schools

Bhartesh Singh Thakur

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 17

There is a shortage of 49.2 per cent teachers in the Mewat cadre with 64.8 per cent vacancies among Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs) and 64.1 per cent in Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs).

Ground situation

8,506 Sanctioned posts

4,181 Posts lying vacant

Postgraduate teachers: 1,053 vacant against 1,626 sanctioned

Trained graduate teachers: 1,642 vacant against 2,560 sanctioned

Primary teachers: 1,439 vacant against 3,966 sanctioned

The government today submitted these facts in reply to a question from Nuh MLA and Congress chief whip Aftab Ahmed. As many as 4,181 posts are lying vacant against 8,506 sanctioned in the Mewat cadre. Among PGTs, 1,053 posts are vacant against 1,626 sanctioned, while in TGTs, 1,642 are vacant against 2,560 sanctioned.

Among primary teachers in the Mewat cadre, there are 3,966 sanctioned posts, but 1,439 are vacant (36.3 per cent shortage). Education Minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar said no high school head master had been appointed by promotion since 2015 and no primary teacher had been appointed in the past two years (2020-21). However, 158 teachers were appointed in 2019. Ahmed also raised the issue of 94 zero-teacher elementary schools in Nuh district to which Gujjar agreed but said those schools were being run after making internal adjustments.

Among the PGTs, 150 teachers were appointed by direct recruitment in Nuh from 2015 to 2021. It included just one teacher of Punjabi, two each of home science, music, physical education and psychology, three of sociology, three of history and five each of computer science and economics in the past seven years.

None of the TGTs were recruited for Hindi, Punjabi, art and music in the past seven years, while two Sanskrit, three home science and five maths teachers were appointed.

During a supplementary question, Ahmed alleged: “The Congress government didn’t allow any transfers during its time but recently a number of teachers has been transferred. The minister is not serious about filling posts.”

Gujjar said retired teachers, guest teachers and those hired through outsourcing had been engaged to tide over the shortage.