5,000 Teacher Posts Lying Vacant in Odisha Universities Degree Colleges
Although a number of Government-run and private universities are coming up in the State every year, but the shortage of teaching staff in these educational institutions eventually affected the quality education.
If reports are to be believed there is a shortage of a whopping number of 5,000 teaching staff in the last three years in various universities across Odisha. According to the data of Ministry of Human Resource Development, there were 41,852 teachers in the academic session of 2014-15 but the number has gone down to 36,784 in 2016-17.