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Parliamentary panel flags 1,596 NCERT vacancies, 44% CBSE posts unfilled

Parliamentary panel flags 1,596 NCERT vacancies, 44% CBSE posts unfilled
Parliamentary Panel Flags NCERT, CBSE Staff Shortage; 56% Posts Vacant · NDTV

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.

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)

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