STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: As many as 21,342 posts of teachers and 6,862 posts of other staff members are lying vacant from the lower primary to the university level in Assam.
Education Minister Ranoj Pegu informed the State Assembly of this in a written reply today.
Rafiqul Islam of the AIUDF wanted to know how many posts of teachers were lying vacant in the state and when the government would fill them.
The minister replied, "As many as 935 posts of teachers, 956 posts of other staff members and 23 posts of librarians are vacant in the state colleges."
On the vacancies in engineering colleges and polytechnic institutes, the minister said, "As many as 730 posts of teachers and 938 posts of other staff members are vacant."
At the university level, the minister said, "319 posts of teachers and 967 posts of other staff members are vacant in the state. Assam has 13 state universities. According to the UGC norms, each university department must have one professor, two associate professors and four assistant professors. We can fill up the vacancies only after getting proposals from the universities. The only State Women University has 15 departments with 48 temporary faculty members. The university has no permanent post as of now.
"As many as 9,360 posts of teachers are vacant in provincialized and government high and higher secondary schools in the state. The number of vacancies of other staff members in such schools is 3,962.
"In lower and upper primary schools, 10,000 posts of teachers are lying vacant."
The state has 35,856 government and provincialized LP schools – 34,694 in rural areas and 1,162 in urban areas. The annual school dropout rate in 2020-21 in the state was 3.3 per cent in LP schools, the highest in South Salmara and the lowest in Kamrup Rural. The dropout rate in upper primary schools is 4.9 per cent, the highest in South Salmara and the lowest in Kamrup-M."
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