MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. D. PURANDESWARI)
(a) A statement giving State-wise details of Government,
local body and government aided schools in the primary,
upper primary and secondary sector in the country and the
number of teachers in primary, upper primary and secondary
schools, based on Statistics of School Education (SSE) 2009-
10 (Provisional) is given in Annexure I.
(b) to (d): Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) against 19.14
lakh teacher posts sanctioned till date for classes I-VIII,
12.25 lakh teachers posts have been filled up as per the
details given in Annexure II. The requirement of additional
teachers under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education (RTE) Act, 2009 was estimated at the national
level at 5.08 lakh when the RTE Act 2009 became operative.
Since then, based on proposals received from the State
Governments, 6.31 lakh teacher posts have been sanctioned
under SSA to enable States to meet the RTE requirements.
In respect of the secondary sector (classes IX-X),
52352 additional teacher posts have been sanctioned under
the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) for existing
Government Secondary schools.
(e): As per District Information System for Education (DISE)
2009-10, the Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) is 34:1 for the
primary stage of education and 31:1 for the upper primary
stage of education.
(f): Posts have been sanctioned under SSA and RMSA to
improve the PTR. In addition, States have been advised to
take steps to rationalize teacher deployment, fill up the
State sector teacher vacancies, as well as vacancies of
posts sanctioned under SSA.
