02-05-2025
Shortage of teachers hits edu in schools: Raj Cong chief
Jaipur: Congress state president Govind Singh Dotasra said govt schools are witnessing declining enrolments due to insufficient teaching staff. He highlighted that the education department currently has 1.25 lakh unfilled teaching positions, and shortage affects both Hindi and English medium schools across the state.
"The education department of Rajasthan is running in a completely passive mode. Due to the failures of the department, the education system of the state is going downhill. The entire academic session passed, but schools did not get teachers. Due to the shortage of teachers, enrolment is decreasing across the state," said Dotasra in a post on social media platform X.
He added that 32,139 posts of senior teachers are vacant in the state, along with 8,174 posts of principal, 5,867 posts of vice-principal, 20,431 posts of lecturers are vacant, and about 17,500 posts of Mahatma Gandhi English Medium Schools are also vacant.
"The achievements of the department's minister have been only baseless statements, insulting teachers, blaming the previous govt, sports kit scam, closing schools, depriving the poor of English education, reducing enrolment, taking U-turns on decisions, not providing uniforms to children, and ruining the education system of Rajasthan," added the state Congress president.
Reacting to the statements, the education minister Madan Dilawar, while speaking to TOI, said that teachers were recruited for 30,000 posts and work is underway to fill posts of 50,000-60,000 more teachers this year.
"The Congress president is right in saying that 1.25 lakh posts are vacant in the education department, and we are working to rectify the mistakes made by the previous govt. The posts are vacant due to the decisions taken by the previous Congress govt, and recruitments are being done regularly to fill all the posts," said Dilawar.
