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UP issues Rs 1.3cr recoverynotices to 6 sacked teachers

UP issues Rs 1.3cr recoverynotices to 6 sacked teachers
Lucknow/Shravasti: The UP government on Wednesday issued notices to six sacked teachers for recovery of Rs 1.37 crore paid to them during their tenure of employment in the district. The six were sacked last year after they 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, 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' Rs 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 (Rs 4.8 lakh) , Ram Kumar of Firozabad (Rs 13.6 lakh), Shobnath of Sant Kabir Nagar (Rs 33.3 lakh), Rajiv Upadhyaya of Gorakhpur (Rs 33.4), Kanhaiya Singh of Balrampur (Rs 32.7 lakh) , and Ajit Kumar Shukla of Bahraich (Rs 19.1 lakh).
"All these six teachers were caught working with fake documents last year, after which they were sacked and FIRswere 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.

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 notice says (TOI has a copy).
According to Bahraich BSA Dinesh Yadav, four teachers using fake documents were sacked on April 12, 2019 and recovery notice amounting to Rs 95 lakh was issued to them in January this year.
Over 4,000 teachers across the state were found using fake degrees of Agra University in an SIT probe. Action has been initiated against all of them.
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