Article: Lack of staff, untrained teachers plague schools: Survey.

Lack of staff, untrained teachers plague schools: Survey

New Delhi, Mar 5 (PTI) The school education in the country is plagued by lack of trained teachers and there are a sizable number of schools facing inadequate number of teachers, according to a recent government survey.

About 21 per cent of the 25,33,205 full-time teachers in primary schools are untrained teachers. Interestingly, 4.6 per cent of these teachers are having academic qualification below secondary, the recent seventh All India School Education Survey conducted by NCERT in collaboration with state governments and National Informatics Centre found.

Similarly, of the 13,51,499 ...

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