With several seats lying vacant, as many as 52 junior college teachers in the Pune division have become surplus. Majority of the excess teachers are reported from the Arts stream, which is being attributed to the dearth of students studying Arts, rendering lecturers idle.

Every year, the deputy director of education department in the city generates data of how many students have enrolled in junior colleges for class XI and class XII, and accordingly the strength of teachers is fixed for the particular academic year. However, for the first time ever the numbers of teachers who have become excess has crossed the 50 mark.