Fact check on Modi’s UP election campaign: Truths, half-truths and tall claims

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally on February 16, 2017 in Barabanki, 30km from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh that has seen three phases of voting in a seven-phase poll for the next Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly).

As many as 23% teacher posts in elementary grades (up to Class 8) and 50% posts in secondary schools ( Class 9 and Class 10) are vacant in Uttar Pradesh, IndiaSpend reported in December 2016.

Of six million teaching positions in government schools nationwide, about 900,000 elementary school teaching positions and 100,000 in secondary schools — put together, a million — are vacant, according to data tabled on December 5, 2016 in the Lok Sabha