?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Myth+of+Teacher+Shortage+in+India&rft.creator=Datta%2C+S&rft.creator=Kingdon%2C+G&rft.description=This+paper+examines+the+widespread+perception+in+India+that+the+country+has+an+acute+teacher+shortage+of+about+one+million+teachers+in+public+elementary+schools%2C+a+view+repeated+in+India%E2%80%99s+National+Education+Policy+2020.+Using+official+DISE+data%2C+we+show+that+teacher+vacancies+cannot+be+equated+with+teacher+shortages%3A+while+the+number+of+teacher+vacancies+(in+teacher-deficit+schools)+is+766%2C487%2C+the+number+of+teacher+surpluses+(in+surplus-teacher+schools)+is+520%2C141%2C+giving+a+net+deficit+of+only+246%2C346+teachers+in+the+country.+Secondly%2C+removing+estimated+fake+student+numbers+from+enrolment+data+greatly+reduces+the+required+number+of+teachers+and+raises+the+number+of+surplus+teachers%2C+converting+the+net+deficit+of+246%2C346+teachers+into+an+estimated+net+surplus+of+98%2C371+teachers.+Thirdly%2C+if+we+both+remove+estimated+fake+enrolment+and+also+make+a+hypothetical+change+to+the+teacher+allocation+rule+to+adjust+for+the+phenomenon+of+emptying+public+schools+(which+has+slashed+the+national+median+size+of+public+schools+to+a+mere+63+students%2C+and+rendered+many+schools+%E2%80%98tiny%E2%80%99)%2C+the+estimated+net+teacher+surplus+rises+to+239%2C800+teachers.+Fourthly%2C+we+show+that+if+government+does+fresh+recruitment+to+fill+the+supposed+approximately+one-million+vacancies+as+promised+in+National+Education+Policy+2020%2C+the+already+modest+national+mean+pupil-teacher-ratio+of+25.1+would+fall+to+19.9%2C+at+a+permanently+increased+fiscal+cost+of+nearly+Rupees+637+billion+(USD+8.7+billion)+per+year+in+2019-20+prices%2C+which+is+higher+than+the+individual+GDPs+of+50+countries+that+year.+The+paper+highlights+the+major+efficiencies+that+can+result+from+evidence-based+policy+on+minimum+viable+school-size%2C+teacher+allocation+norms%2C+permissible+maximum+pupil+teacher+ratios%2C+and+teacher+deployment.+%2F+Note%3A+This+paper+updates+an+earlier+paper+titled%2C+%E2%80%9CThe+myth+of+teacher+shortage+in+India%E2%80%9D+which+had+used+older+(2017-18)+data.+The+current+paper+uses+recently+available+2019-20+data.&rft.subject=Public+elementary+schools%2C+pupil+teacher+ratio%2C+teacher+vacancies%2C+teacher+surplus%2C+fake+pupil+enrolment%2C+teacher+absence%2C+India&rft.publisher=Research+on+Improving+Systems+of+Education+(RISE)&rft.date=2021-12-01&rft.type=Working+%2F+discussion+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=++++(RISE+Working+Paper++21%2F072).+Research+on+Improving+Systems+of+Education+(RISE)%3A+Oxford%2C+UK.+(2021)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10128735%2F7%2FKingdon_Myth_of_Teacher_Shortage_in_India.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10128735%2F&rft.rights=open