Society · 22 Aug 2026
Amid the debate over school consolidation and rural education access in India, a recent finding was cited stating that teachers spend only about 19% of their working hours on actual classroom teaching.
Which of the following bodies published this finding?
A viral protest by students against the merger of under-enrolled government schools in Madhya Pradesh forced a swift administrative reversal, reviving the debate over how school consolidation affects rural access to education.
Prelims frequently tests whether a candidate can correctly attribute a specific statistic to the right institutional source when multiple bodies (NIEPA, NITI Aayog) are cited together in the same current-affairs passage - a recurring source-attribution trap.
NIEPA found that Indian teachers spend just 19% of their working hours on actual teaching, a statistic distinct from NITI Aayog's separate finding of ~2.1 lakh vacant teacher posts in Uttar Pradesh - both cited in the school-merger/rural-access debate.
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