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LUCKNOW: A full-time science teacher employed in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV), a residential setup for girls from weaker sections of society, allegedly “worked” at 25 schools simultaneously, earning a total of over Rs 1 crore as salaries from these schools over 13 months till February 2020. The anomaly came to light when a database of teachers was being created.
The teacher, Anamika Shukla, was able to pull this off despite real-time monitoring of teachers’ attendance in UP’s primary schools,
A native of Mainpuri, according to the records in all the schools she “worked” in, Shukla was on the rolls of these schools for over a year. According to the director general of school education, Vijay Kiran Anand, a probe is under way to ascertain the facts about this teacher who has gone incommunicado.
“How can a teacher mark her presence at several places even when they are s