UP notice to 6 sacked teachers for recovery of ₹1.37crore paid to them

UP notice to 6 sacked teachers for recovery of ₹1.37crore paid to them

Isha.Jain@timesgroup.com

11.06.2020

Lucknow/Shravasti: The UP government on Wednesday issued notices to six sacked teachers for recovery of ₹1.37 crore paid to them during their tenure of employment in the district. The six were sacked last year after they were found using fake papers to get the job and FIRs were filed against them. One of them is in jail, one has got bail while the remaining four are absconding. Earlier, similar steps were taken to recover ₹95 lakh from four teachers in Bahraich, which they spent as salary and allowances during their service. Last week, TOI reported about one teacher who worked at 25 Kasturba Vidyalayas for 13 months and ‘took away’ ₹1 crore as salary. Later, it turned out that documents of one ‘eligible’ candidate were being used by fraudsters.

Shravasti’s basic shisha adhikari Omkar Rana issued notices to six teachers —Manoj Kumar of Etah (₹4.8 lakh), Ram Kumar of Firozabad (₹13.6 lakh), Shobnath of Sant Kabir Nagar (₹33.3 lakh), Rajiv Upadhyaya of Gorakhpur (₹33.4 lakh), Kanhaiya Singh of Balrampur (₹32.7 lakh), and Ajit Kumar Shukla of Bahraich (₹19.1 lakh). “All these six teachers were caught working with fake documents last year, after which they were sacked and FIRs were lodged against them,” Rana said.

According to officials, of the six, Ajit Shukla had produced a fake certificate of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) to get the job. He was sacked, and later arrested but is currently on bail. Rana said, Ram Kumar is related to the 2004-05 BEd degree scam where candidates used fake degrees in the name of Agra University. Others were terminated in different cases of using fake documents. Of the remaining five, Shobhnath is behind bars while four are absconding, Rana told TOI.

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