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Why India's richest state cannot hire enough teachers

A government school in Delhi that needs 59 teachers being run by two temporary appointees

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Aparna Kalra | IndiaSpend
A government school that needs 59 teachers being run by two temporary appointees: This is not a story from a poor, rural backwater but from the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, India’s richest (by per capita income) and ninth most literate province among 36 Indian states and union territories.
 

This and the fact that nearly half the teaching positions in Delhi government schools–the data did not include municipal schools–are either vacant or have been filled by a “guest” or temporary teacher were revealed in an 81-page