Teacher recruitment: Government ignores vacancies in linguistic minority schools
The Karnataka government is facing criticism for excluding linguistic minority schools from its latest recruitment drive for 15,000 teacher positions. Job aspirants and legislators argue that ignoring these schools exacerbates existing infrastructure and staffing shortages in backward regions.
Why it matters
It underscores the tension between state-wide recruitment policies and the specific needs of linguistic minority communities in education.
While the Karnataka government is recruiting to fill 15,000 vacant teacher posts in government schools across the State, many have objected to this not including vacancies in government linguistic minority schools.
The government issued an order on August 10 for the recruitment of 15,000 teachers, which is primarily limited to government Kannada and English medium schools.
There are 3,947 Urdu medium schools, where about 2,73,573 students are studying. In addition, there are 881 Marathi medium schools, 53 Tamil medium schools, 53 Telugu medium schools, and five Hindi medium schools in the State. These schools are said to have over 5,000 teaching vacancies, which are not being filled through the present recruitment drive.
“We have been waiting for recruitment for many years. The government has disappointed us,” said Kaleem Ahmed, a job aspirant.
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