Haryana’s education system badly damaged under BJP, says congress MP Surjewala
Press Trust of India | January 4, 2026 | 07:29 PM IST | 1 min read
Haryana’s education system is suffering due to nearly 30,000 vacant teaching posts and diversion of teachers to non-academic work, the Congress leader alleged.
Chandigarh: Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala on Sunday alleged that the BJP government has badly damaged the education system in Haryana, putting the future of children at risk.
He claimed that over 29,800 teaching posts are lying vacant in government schools, while nearly 50 per cent of professor posts in government colleges are unfilled.
The Congress leader claimed that due to the shortage, the existing teachers are also being assigned non-teaching duties such as election work, surveys, census and government publicity. Teachers are being burdened with more than 25 non-academic tasks, forcing them to stay away from classrooms for 80 to 100 days a year, he said.
Also read A IDSO holds parents’ meeting in Bengaluru on impact of KPS Magnet school scheme
"This has resulted in students studying without teachers for long periods." The situation has led to a decline in the overall education system and poor academic performance of students in government schools, Surjewala claimed and accused the BJP of pushing Haryana into unemployment, crime and educational decline, harming both the present and future of the state.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Quick Watch
]Next Story
]Featured News
]- MGCU Motihari’s expulsion of MA student unfair; Patna HC orders university to reinstate him
- Maharashtra: MAFSU Nagpur gets first pvt veterinary, dairy technology colleges, doubles BVSc & AH seats
- West Bengal forms panel to decide fate of 933 schools with no students, may hand buildings to other depts
- ‘Not individual failure’: IIT Bombay students protest suicide, want director to quit, action against professor
- West Bengal crackdown on 252 ‘unrecognised’ madrassas leave parents scrambling for alternatives
- NEET PG Counselling: NMC frames branch-specific guidelines for MD, MS admissions of disabled candidates
- IIT Ropar: Faculty ‘harassment’, forced resignation, a self-argued case – how a scholar won her PhD seat back
- NCAHP: Allied healthcare professionals must now register, retrain every year for renewal
- UGC control, scholar attacks, sackings: India’s academic freedom ‘severely restricted’ in 2026, says SAR
- ‘Leak in education’: Delhi Govt drops land rule, helps 2,000 unrecognised pvt schools get legal sanction