Araria district education officer stops 13 teachers' salary

ARARIA: When district education officer (DEO), Araria, Rajivranjan Prasad Sinha, inspected the two madrassas under Palasi block of Araria district on Saturday on receiving complaints showing fake attendance of not only students but also teachers as also fraudulent drawals, he did not find any student or maulvi (urdu teacher) at either institution. Interestingly, even the employees were found absent.
The DEO did not find even a single student out of the 429 students shown admitted in Madrassa Islamia and no student out of the 225 students shown admitted in Madar Setul Banat Madrassa at Mianpur village. After the inspection, the DEO has forthwith stopped the payment of salary to all the 13 teachers working in both the madrassas till further orders, and the principal maulvi of both the institutions have been directed to submit their respective reports by October 31.
The DEO has also asked the principal maulvi of both the institutions to furnish details of entire allotment received and expenditure made during the last five years along with attendance registers, examination registers, rollsheets, marksheets, cash book, mid-day meal registers etc.
According to reliable sources, all the 13 maulvi teachers have been receiving their salary without teaching. The two institutions were also receiving foodgrains for mid-day meal and money for all the 654 students shown admitted to the two madrassas.