India’s richest state shows extreme lack of teachers in schoools

But if supposedly literate Delhi, India’s richest state, as we said, cannot manage or reform its school-education system, it could indicate why poorer states with millions of students face a crisis that imperils India’s economic growth and employment.

To understand the reasons for Delhi’s teaching crisis, IndiaSpend tracked the teacher-hiring process of the Delhi government from start to finish. We found that shortages are caused not so much by the state’s low spending per student–at Rs 3,852 in 2014-15, it is 66% lower than the national average of Rs 11,252–but a tangled, outdated and, often, illogical, hiring process.

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