Odisha High Court Strikes against 13,000 unfilled teacher posts: Chief Secretary requested to submit affidavit.

 

The court of the state of Orissa has been very serious to the vacant teacher posts that have been pending long in the state-run schools. On Monday, Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad ordered the Chief Secretary and the Commissioner-cum-Secretary to the Chancellor of State Universities to submit affidavits explaining the tangible steps that were being undertaken to fill in more than 13,000 open teacher positions in Odisha government schools and government universities.

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The problem of unfilled teaching positions has many years of existence with several causes:

Lack of speed in the hiring of new employees and administrative slowness.

Loss of experience in teachers who have not been replaced in time.

Policy mix up between temporary hiring of guest teachers and permanent hiring.

Lack of proper coordination between the School and Mass Education Department and Higher Education Department.

Letters in the Directorate of Secondary Education and the Higher Education Department have shown very frightening statistics there are still more than 11,000 vacant positions in schools and 2,100 vacant university positions.

This extreme deficit of teaching personnel has brought about:

Interrupted lessons and congested instructors.

Fading quality of education in high schools and universities.

Juvenile frustration due to unemployed qualified youth who have passed OSSTET and have B.Ed. degrees.

Poor performance of students in terms of academic performance, particularly in aided and rural institutions.

According to the High Court, this is the type of crisis that has a direct impact on the future of students and the quality of education at Odisha.

Justice Shripad was also not satisfied with the selective obedience of the previous court orders and issued the following orders:

Chief Secretary and Commissioner-cum-Secretary should submit elaborate affidavits before November 10.

The affidavits should give particular and tangible measures made to cover vacant positions.

Lack of compliance can be subject to harsh treatment and legal reproach.

The case is based on a petition submitted by Arpita Priyadarshini and three other unemployed youngsters, who claimed against the decision of the government to employ 6,387 retired teachers as guest teachers in the academic session 2025 26. According to petitioners, this policy marginalizes young eligible candidates who want to get permanent employment.

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The move by the Odisha High Court is an important move towards accountability in the education sector. It remains to be seen whether the government is committed with solving the teacher vacancy crisis or it is just a temporary solution by the submissions of affidavits to come. With new hope to recruit fairly, thousands of would be teachers Odisha await the next court hearing on November 10, 2025.