6 sacked UP teachers asked to refund salary

Lucknow, June 11 (IANS) Six teachers have been served notices for the recovery of Rs 1.37 crore paid to them during their tenure of employment in Uttar Pradesh.

The teachers were sacked by the Yogi Adityanath government 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 Rs 95 lakh from four teachers in Bahraich.

The notices were issued by Omkar Rana, the Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) of Shravasti district.

He issued notices to six teachers – Manoj Kumar of Etah (Rs 4.8 lakh), Ram Kumar of Firozabad (Rs 13.6 lakh), Shobhnath of Sant Kabir Nagar (Rs 33.3 lakh), Rajiv Upadhyaya of Gorakhpur (Rs 33.4 lakh), Kanhaiya Singh of Balrampur (Rs 32.7 lakh) and Ajit Kumar Shukla of Bahraich (Rs 19.1 lakh).

Rana said, “All these six teachers were caught working with fake documents last year, after which they were sacked and FIRs were lodged against them.”

According to officials, of the six teachers, 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.

Together, these six teachers had taken Rs 1.3 crore as salary and other allowances for which recovery notices have been served.

If they fail to deposit the amount by June 20, the recovery of revenue will be done by initiating legal action, the notices said.

Over 4,000 teachers across the state were found using fake degrees of the Agra University in a SIT probe. Action has been initiated against all of them.

–IANS

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