Overview
- Official data show 56,520 sanctioned posts across KVs with 46,347 filled and 10,173 vacant, including 8,457 teaching and 1,716 non-teaching roles.
- Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said vacancies arise from retirements, resignations, transfers, promotions, deputations, new schools and upgrades.
- KVS has made 33,350 appointments since 2014, including 30,876 teaching hires, with the largest single-year intake in 2022–23 when 11,733 teachers were appointed.
- Contractual staffing remains a stop-gap measure, with 6,920 contractual teachers engaged in 2024–25, and such appointments not covered by reservation norms applied to regular recruitment.
- Even as the government sanctioned 85 new KVs in December 2024 and 57 in October 2025 and advances PM SHRI upgrades, fresh admissions fell to 139,660 in 2024–25 from 195,081 in 2020–21.