Over 12K Teaching Posts Vacant in KVs: Union Minister of State for Education

The KVS Vacancy 2022 has been doing rounds in the news for some time. The question of How many vacancies are available in KVS across the various Kendra Vidyalaya Schools have being many times. In response to such a question asked in Lok Sabha, the Union Minister of State for Education came up with statistics related to the KVS Vacancy 2022. According to the statistics Shared by Annapurna Devi, around 12000 vacancies are available in the Kendra Vidyalaya.

KVS Recruitment 2022

There were two specific questions asked by the BJD leader Bharatruhari Mahtab and AIADMK’s P. Ravindranath. The first question was on how many teaching posts are vacant in KVS and the second question was enquired about the vacancies available in all the centrally-run educational institutes across the country.

She has presented state-wise data which states that the highest vacancies for KVS are available in Tamil Nadu with  1162 posts, which is followed by 1066 posts in Madhya Pradesh and 1006 posts in Karnataka. The list included data for the other states like West Bengal (964 Vacancies), Odisha (886 Vacancies), and Maharashtra (705 Vacancies).

Out of the total vacancies of 12000, 9161 posts have been filled on a contractual basis. KVs often seek applications from eligible candidates for the vacant posts in particular schools on a contract basis. The candidates are recruited for the contractual posts for a temporary period of 1 year. Once the one-year contract is over, the candidates are released from the posts and fresh applications are invited on a contractual basis. This practice helps the KVs to maintain the teaching-learning process.

The MoS has also shared the category-wise vacancy list which states 457 teaching positions are available for the OBC category candidates. There are 337 vacancies for the SC category followed by 163 EWS vacancies and 168 ST vacancies.

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