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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicContractual Teachers

Topic: Contractual Teachers

Why does Haryana hold eligibility tests for contractual teachers? Merit only 1/5th of criteria

Opposition accuses Khattar govt of 'playing with future of educated and qualified youth'. CM says recruitment process made more transparent.

Poor pay, no job security — what’s haunting 9K-plus contractual teachers in Kendriya Vidyalayas

Contractual teachers make up 20% of KVs’ teaching strength but permanent teachers get paid 1.5-4 times more. Here’s why contractual teachers in India’s KV schools are unhappy.  

How India can make overworked teachers adapt to newer policies to fix learning loss in kids

There are many ways to design incentives in the public education space in India that can change classroom culture and the learning outcomes of children.

India’s ad hoc teachers are living unstable, undignified lives under Covid lockdowns

The second wave coupled with lockdowns has compounded problems for ad hoc teachers with many stories of bare survival emerging from across India.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.