Primary and Secondary Education seems to have taken a backseat in government schools in the Kalyana Karnataka region with a shortage of 33% of teachers in primary schools and 26% vacancies among secondary schools.
As per the latest data of the Department of Public Instruction available with The Hindu, there are a total of 60,988 sanctioned posts in government schools in the Kalyana Karnataka region of which about 18,780 posts of headmaster, postgraduate teachers, trained graduate teachers, and the primary teacher are lying vacant as of the 2023-24 academic year.
Among teaching posts, 18,187 posts are vacant against 57,337 teaching posts sanctioned for primary and secondary schools in the region.
