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Parliamentary panel flags 1,596 NCERT vacancies, 44% CBSE posts unfilled
This story is about two important groups that help schools in India.
The first group, called NCERT, helps decide what students learn and helps create education rules for the country.
The second group, called CBSE, manages many schools and big exams for students.
Some people from India's parliament checked whether these groups had enough workers to do their jobs.
They found out that many jobs at NCERT were empty, so more than half of the jobs had nobody doing them.
They also found that nearly half of the jobs at CBSE were empty, too.
The parliament group wrote a report to tell everyone about these empty jobs.
It warned that using temporary workers for important exam work could cause problems for students.
The report asks leaders to hire more people quickly.
That way, the groups that run schools and exams can do their important work properly.
More than half of NCERT's sanctioned posts are vacant, with 1,596 vacancies as of October 2025.
The vacancies comprise 145 academic, 131 school teaching, 916 ministerial and 404 ancillary positions.
CBSE has 44 per cent of its 2,117 approved positions unfilled, totalling 933 posts.
The Committee on Estimates' Tenth Report (2026-27) was presented in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
The committee warned that CBSE's reliance on temporary contractual staff threatens exam safety and urged fast-track recruitment.
- Who
- National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and the parliamentary Committee on Estimates
- What
- A parliamentary committee reported that more than half of NCERT's sanctioned posts are vacant (1,596 vacancies) and 44 per cent of CBSE posts are unfilled
- Where
- India, in the Lok Sabha (parliament)
- When
- The Tenth Report (2026-27) was presented in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday; vacancy data as of October 2025
- Why
- The committee reviewed budget and policy aspects for providing affordable and quality education and flagged staff shortages affecting NCERT's implementation of NEP 2020 and CBSE's exam integrity
Key facts
- NCERT total vacancies
- 1,596
- NCERT sanctioned strength
- 2,844 (working strength: 1,248; as of October 2025)
- NCERT academic vacancies
- 145
- NCERT school teaching vacancies
- 131
- NCERT ministerial and ancillary vacancies
- 916 and 404
- CBSE unfilled posts
- 44% (933 of 2,117 approved positions)
- CBSE Group C vacancies
- 595
- Report
- Tenth Report of Committee on Estimates (2026-27)










