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 affidavit filed in the high court by the Delhi government in December 2016. These were data not made public before the court case, which was filed by a parent who sought more teachers and better infrastructure for his child’s tin-roofed school.
