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Ahead of the Haryana fund for 2026-27, erstwhile Haryana Minister and nationalist patron of the Indian National Lok Dal Sampat Singh connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) said the State authorities had enactment acquisition connected the backmost burner by reducing the allocation of funds and softly passing connected the work to backstage entities.
Addressing a property league astatine Rohtak, Mr. Singh said arsenic per the audited reports the stock of funds for acquisition had gone down from 11.9 % of the full fund to 8.7 % successful 2023-24. The reports for 2024-25 had not been audited yet. It is astir unfortunate that the acquisition assemblage from pre-primary to assemblage level was neglected implicit the past fewer years, helium added.
According to the latest acquisition section report, 40,671 posts of schoolhouse teachers retired of the sanctioned 1,22,359 posts were vacant astatine present, helium said, adding that the infrastructure was crumbling due to the fact that of deficiency of attraction of schoolhouse buildings constructed decades ago. More than 500 schools successful Haryana remained water-logged for weeks during the past monsoon floods.
Haryana had 66 authorities colleges successful 2004 and the fig went up to 186 present contempt the dependable chopped successful outlay for education, said Mr. Singh. “Most of the caller colleges were being tally from superior schoolhouse buildings. Due to deficiency of carnal infrastructure and shortage of teachers, the mean spot of students successful these colleges was little than 200 each,” helium said.
As galore arsenic 85 authorities colleges were without principals and 56% posts of teachers were vacant. Similarly, successful 97 Government-aided colleges 56% posts of main stay unfilled. A ample percent of seats for undergraduate and post-graduate courses remained vacant owed to these reasons, helium stated.
There were lone 5 universities successful Haryana up to 2004, but 18 much had been added. “They are each present facing fiscal and infrastructure problems. Physical infrastructure is lacking successful astir each caller universities. Grants-in-aid fixed to universities had been stopped since 2022; present perpetual loans are being fixed to the universities, which was not capable to wage adjacent the teaching and non-teaching unit salaries. More than 50 per cent teaching posts were lying vacant,” said Mr. Singh.
