‘FORM TEAM TO VERIFY GOVT TEACHERS’ PAPERS’

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday directed officials to set up a dedicated team to verify documents of teachers in government-run schools in the state.

“Stringent action should be initiated against the defaulters,” a government statement quoted the chief minister as having said at a high-level meeting at his official residence here.

The decision is applicable to teachers appointed in schools under the departments of madhyamik shika (secondary education), higher education, basic shiksha (basic education), social welfare and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas, the statement said.

The development comes

in the wake of withdrawal of salaries from several government schools, known as Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs), in the state based on forged documents in the name of one Anamika Shukla. The Special Task Force (STF) of the state police was recently asked to probe the matter.

The ‘real’ Anamika Shukla, a 27-year-old resident of Gonda, had applied for a science teacher’s job in a Kasturba school but had never worked there due to personal reasons. She appeared before the Gonda basic shiksha adhikari on June 9 to submit an application stating that her documents were misused.

The Uttar Pradesh government believes that once the teachers’ documents are uploaded on the web portal, these discrepancies will be plugged, those in the know of things said.

Earlier, basic education minister Satish Chand Dwivedi had said documents of all 5,000 teachers of 746 Kasturba schools will be verified by the month-end.

(With PTI inputs)