Published By: Sukanya Nandy<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last Updated: July 07, 2023, 12:34 IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n There are 3,486 government schools in the district (Representative image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The authorities have ordered the deduction of a day\u2019s salary for 87 teachers of government schools in Bihar\u2019s Patna district, who were found absent during inspections in the last five days, a senior official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n The step was taken following a directive of Additional Chief Secretary (ACS- Education department) K K Pathak who has asked all district magistrates to conduct frequent inspections of government schools from July 1 and \u201cimmediately\u201d deduct a day\u2019s salary of those who would be absent without any valid reason.<\/p>\n There are 3,486 government schools in the district.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Patna district administration has ordered deduction of a day\u2019s salary of 87 teachers of government schools. They were found absent during inspections carried out four times since July 1,\u201d Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh told PTI.<\/p>\n Besides, the district administration has also recommended disciplinary action against the absentee teachers, Singh said.<\/p>\n The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), an apex body of school education and teacher education and a wing of the Education Department, has also ordered the deduction of a day\u2019s salary of its lecturers posted in Purnea and Darbhanga districts, for remaining absent during virtual meetings called by senior officials on July 5.<\/p>\n The district magistrate said, \u201cInspections, at least twice a week, are being conducted in all schools in Patna district after receiving a letter from the education department.\u201d Of the 3,486 institutes, 487 were inspected on Wednesday and 10 teachers were found absent, said Singh who himself conducted the exercise in a few schools in the district headquarter town.<\/p>\n The education department recently issued a series of orders including frequent inspection of schools by the district authorities.<\/p>\n Besides, department officials of various ranks need permission directly from the ACS, if they were to travel outside their district headquarters, even for an appearance before a court.<\/p>\n The ACS also asked the district authorities to check the implementation of the mid-meal scheme, condition of toilets, and availability of drinking water during inspections in schools.<\/p>\n (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI<\/a>)<\/i> <\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Published By: Sukanya Nandy Last Updated: July 07, 2023, 12:34 IST There are 3,486 government schools in the district (Representative image) The SCERT has also ordered the deduction of a day\u2019s salary of its lecturers posted in Purnea and Darbhanga districts, for remaining absent during virtual meetings called by senior officials on July 5 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"There](\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&width=510&height=356\" "\\"There"){kind=logo}
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