Teacher recruitment: Government ignores vacancies in linguistic minority schools

Teacher recruitment: Administration ignores vacancies in linguistic minority schools Published – August 20, 2026 09: 16 pm IST – Bengaluru.

Key points

• There are 3, 947 Urdu medium schools, where regarding 2, 73, 573 students are studying.
• The administration issued an order on August 10 for the recruitment of 15, 000 teachers.
• During the ongoing Legislative session, members of the Legislative Council, Balkis Banu and Abdul Jabbar, raised the matter and drew the government's attention.
• Plenty of districts with numerous linguistic minority schools, including Kalaburagi, Bidar, Belagavi, Bagalkote, and Vijayapura, are in the Kalyan Karnataka region.
• A delegation of job aspirants from linguistic minority schools met Minority Affairs Minister U.T.

For context, the administration issued an order on August 10 for the recruitment of 15, 000 teachers. It is primarily limited to administration Kannada and English medium schools. Photo Credit: File Photo.

While the Karnataka administration is recruiting to fill 15, 000 vacant teacher posts in administration schools throughout the State, numerous have objected to this not including vacancies in administration linguistic minority schools.

There are 3, 947 Urdu medium schools, where regarding 2, 73, 573 students are studying. Furthermore, there are 881 Marathi medium schools, 53 Tamil medium schools, 53 Telugu medium schools, and five Hindi medium schools in the State. These schools are remarked to have over 5, 000 teaching vacancies. It are not being filled through the present recruitment drive.

"We have been waiting for recruitment for plenty of years. The administration has disappointed us, " stated Kaleem Ahmed, a job aspirant.

Another job aspirant, Imran Sharif, remarked that numerous candidates who have completed BEd, DEd, and TET qualifications have been waiting for recruitment for plenty of years. While some are unemployed, plenty of are working as guest teachers.

"The dream of getting a government job before reaching the age limit is not fulfilled, " he rued.

"Plenty of districts with numerous linguistic minority schools, including Kalaburagi, Bidar, Belagavi, Bagalkote, and Vijayapura, are in the Kalyan Karnataka region. These areas are additionally identified as backward districts based on the SSLC results. The shortage of teachers and the poor infrastructure in these schools is already serious compared to other parts of the State. In such a situation, ignoring them in recruitment can lead to further challenges, " Ms. Banu remarked.

Meanwhile, a delegation of job aspirants from linguistic minority schools met Minority Affairs Minister U.T. Khader, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Rizwan Arshad and Chairman of the Legislative Council Salim Ahmed, appealing to them to convince the administration to additionally fill vacancies in these schools. The Ministers are remarked to have assured job aspirants that they would take up the problem with the Chief Minister.

In short, teacher recruitment: Government ignores vacancies in linguistic minority schools is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.