Fill more than 5,000 vacant teacher posts

Reviewed 12 October 2026. Contemporary reporting of the Congress 2022 manifesto says over 5,000 teacher vacancies across school levels would be filled on priority. This English wording is a translation of that report; the original party manifesto PDF and page are still needed to confirm it directly. Actual teacher joins support partial delivery. In July 2026 the Education Minister reported that 292 temporary English teachers and 284 temporary mathematics teachers had joined government CBSE schools. He also said recruitment was underway for 3,468 teaching positions, including 2,668 regular posts referred to the selection commission and 800 temporary language and mathematics roles. The joined teachers appear within the temporary cohort; these figures cannot be added together. On 10 October the Cabinet approved recruitment for 100 additional CBSE-affiliated government schools: 3,900 teaching posts and 900 non-teaching posts under a new scheme. The 900 non-teaching posts are outside this teacher promise. The 3,900 teaching approvals are prospective, and overlap with the previously reported recruitment pipeline has not been ruled out. They cannot be counted as teachers appointed or added to the July pipeline. Partially Done reflects verified teacher joins and active recruitment, with the larger original vacancy commitment still unverified. No progress bar is used: the manifesto target is more than 5,000 vacancies, and records do not yet establish how many of those specific vacancies were filled. Confidence is medium for the observed recruitment but limited by the missing original PDF and vacancy reconciliation.