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.
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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. Job aspirants’ long wait “We have been waiting for recruitment for many years. The government has disappointed us,” said Kaleem Ahmed, a job aspirant.Another job aspirant, Imran Sharif, said that a large number of candidates who have completed BEd, DEd, and TET qualifications have been waiting for recruitment for many years. Many are working as guest teachers, while some are unemployed.“The dream of getting a government job before reaching the age limit is not fulfilled,” he rued. Flagged in Council During the ongoing Legislative session, members of the Legislative Council, Balkis Banu and Abdul Jabbar, raised the issue and drew the government’s attention. “Many districts with a large number of linguistic minority schools, including Kalaburagi, Bidar, Belagavi, Bagalkote, and Vijayapura, are in the Kalyan Karnataka region. These areas are also identified as backward districts based on the SSLC results. The shortage of teachers and the poor infrastructure in these schools is already serious compared to other parts of the State. In such a situation, ignoring them in recruitment can lead to further problems,” Ms. Banu said.Meanwhile, a delegation of job aspirants from linguistic minority schools met Minority Affairs Minister U.T. Khader, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Rizwan Arshad and Chairman of the Legislative Council Salim Ahmed, appealing to them to convince the government to also fill vacancies in these schools. The Ministers are said to have assured job aspirants that they would take up the issue with the Chief Minister. Published - August 20, 2026 09:16 pm IST
