Vacancy of 33 pc lecturers

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 20

There is a vacancy of over 33 per cent lecturers and over 29 per cent trained graduate teachers (who teaches up to class X) across Haryana.

The facts came to light in a reply of the Education Department in reply to a question of Congress MLA Varun Chaudhary.

There is a requirement of 39,289 lecturers in Haryana, but only 26,216 are working. There is a vacancy of 13,073, which comes to 33.3 per cent.

Among the TGTs, who teach up to class X, there is a vacancy of 11,041 which amounts to 29.3 per cent of the total workload of 37,719 posts. However, despite higher workload, the sanctioned posts are just 35,454.

In case of primary teachers/JBTs (Mewat cadre), there is a shortage of 28.6 per cent. Against the requirement of 3,562 just 2,544 are working. There is a shortage of 1,018 teachers.

There is a shortage of non-teaching staff too in the department. At the headquarters, there is a shortage of 34.6 per cent, as there are vacancies of 212 against the sanctioned posts of 612.

In field offices, there is a shortage of 45.8 per cent non-teaching staff as there are vacancies of 9,423 against the sanctioned posts of 20,586.

The government says that it has written to Haryana Staff Selection Commission for filling up 3,646 posts of Post Graduate Teachers in various subjects, 2,636 posts of TGTs and 952 posts of primary teachers for Mewat cadre.

It added that the demand to fill up 6,695 posts of peons has also been sent to Chief Secretary, Haryana.