Published By: Damini Solanki<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Last Updated: July 11, 2023, 11:21 IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Guwahati [Gauhati], India<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Around 4.50 lakh ghost students in government and private schools were detected in the state in June during reconciliation of enrolment figures with that of the previous year (Image source: Twitter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After \u201cghost students\u201d, Assam is planning to weed out \u201cghost schools and teachers\u201d, state Education Minister Ranoj Pegu said on Sunday.<\/p>\n Special grants to schools which failed to provide complete information about staff have been put on hold, with salaries of such employees to be stopped in next two months, he said.<\/p>\n Addressing a press conference here, Pegu said, \u201cWe had already detected ghost students. Now, there could be ghost schools and teachers.\u201d Ghost students, schools and teachers are those which exist only on paper. It is done to obtain government funds for various purposes.<\/p>\n Around 4.50 lakh ghost students in government and private schools were detected in the state in June during reconciliation of enrolment figures with that of the previous year.<\/p>\n Pegu said over 11,000 lower and upper primary government schools have failed to provide complete data of their staff, comprising both teaching and non-teaching, as sought by the department.<\/p>\n \u201cThe information was to be uploaded on a specific portal \u2019Shikshya Setu\u2019. After cross checking with our records, we have found that 11,483 schools have not provided details of all staff.<\/p>\n \u201cUntil they upload all the details, we will put on hold Annual School grants and Sports and Physical Education grants for 2023-24,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The minister also announced sanction of grants for the schools which have provided all information.<\/p>\n \u201cNow we are putting on hold the grants. If they don\u2019t give the details, salaries may also have to be stopped from August or September,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He pointed out that only basic details like educational qualifications, joining date, transfers, etc. were sought.<\/p>\n \u201cIf they can\u2019t provide even those few details, the government cannot pay them salary out of public money. We are accountable to the people,\u201d Pegu said.<\/p>\n While 2.08 lakh teaching and non-teaching employees of these schools have uploaded their details, about 35,500 are yet to do it.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the majority have uploaded, suspicion naturally arises why the others couldn\u2019t do it. Some may have genuine reasons and hence, we urge them to give the details immediately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Schools which complete uploading the data will instantly get the grants, the minister said, though he did not specify any timeframe for doing so.<\/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: Damini Solanki Last Updated: July 11, 2023, 11:21 IST Guwahati [Gauhati], India Around 4.50 lakh ghost students in government and private schools were detected in the state in June during reconciliation of enrolment figures with that of the previous year (Image source: Twitter) Ghost students, schools and teachers are those which exist … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6472","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\/6472","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=6472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Around](\"https:\/\/images.news18.com\/ibnlive\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1627283897_news18_logo-1200x800.jpg?impolicy=website&width=510&height=356\" "\\"Around"){kind=logo}
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