New Delhi: More than 50 teachers in government schools in Gujarat continue to draw salaries despite having migrated out of the country.
Not only are these teachers not teaching children, they are also not present in their schools, or in the country, reported The Hindu.
The Gujarat government recently suspended around 135 school teachers who have not attended school or carried out any teaching activity for more than nine months.
The state education minister said that “stern action” will be taken against such teachers, and they will be dismissed from their jobs.
The government took action after the local media highlighted the case of a teacher in Banaskantha district. The teacher, Bhavna Patel, has been absent from duty for eight years and is now settled in the US. But she has continued to draw her salary from the government.
While Gujarat government officials said she has not received salary continuously, the State Education Department is however, is yet to furnish details about how could Patel could have remained absent from duty for so many years without someone finding out.
Her salary was reportedly stopped only from January this year.
“We are serious about it and will take all necessary action against such teachers. We are strict [about] weeding out missing teachers and enforcing accountability and will not tolerate such negligence,” Gujarat Education Minister Kuber Dindor had said, reported The Hindu.
