In the midst of reports that there was a lack of educators in schools of the Association Region, the School Training Division has expressed that there was no such deficiency.

As per an administration representative, there were 18,723 government schools in the UT. Of these, 8,966 are elementary schools, 7,228 upper essential, 1,741 secondary schools and 788 higher senior optional (HSS) schools.

Upwards of 97,116 people have been designated for educating from the pre-essential to the senior optional classes.

According to the enrollment made in the schools, through J&K Administration Determination Board and the RET Plan, no subject-explicit educators have been selected. All are general educators who are fit for showing math, science, SST and dialects.

The understudy educator proportion (PTR) in the event of elementary school is 1:13, upper grade schools is 1:9, in optional school it is 1:14 and at HSS level it is 1:30.

"There were a few schools which had single educator, yet J&K is among the couple of states/UT to carry out the school complex framework strategy as ordered under the NEP-2020. Under the rules gave for the framework, 762 school buildings have been shaped in J&K and legitimization of educators has been finished at various levels, to guarantee that no single-instructor school exists in the UT," an authority said.

"There is no shortage of educators in the upper grade schools. Nonetheless, the subject-explicit educators are enlisted at the higher optional level and there was a lack of such educators in the start of the 2023-24 scholastic year. To address this, the public authority has drawn in 1,496 bunch asset facilitators, who are subject-explicit and have been sent in the remote school, where there was a lack," said the authority.