Overview

• The committee tabled its 368th report on August 5 in the Lok Sabha and August 8 in the Rajya Sabha after documenting 9,59,148 vacancies in 2023–24 and 9,82,662 in 2024–25 out of sanctioned teaching posts
• It directs the Department of School Education and Literacy to complete regular appointments in centrally administered schools, including Kendriya and Navodaya Vidyalayas, by March 31, 2026
• The panel found that contractual hiring undermines reservation provisions and teaching quality and recommended ending such appointments in central government schools
• It urged preserving the four-year Bachelor of Elementary Education programme, resuming permanent NCTE staff recruitments and strengthening District Institutes of Education and Training
• To ensure state compliance the committee proposed suspending the teachers’ salary component of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan funds for states that do not meet the recruitment deadline