Uttar Pradesh government issues final warning to school teachers

LUCKNOW: Issuing final warning to primary school teachers, the Uttar Pradesh government has asked them to either upload their academic records, including the marksheets and certificates of high school, intermediate and graduation, on the Manav Sampada portal or face the music.
In a fresh directive, the basic education department has asked all basic shiksha adhikaris (BSAs) to release salary of only those teachers who have uploaded their high school marksheets and certificates on Manav Sampada portal, an online database of teachers created for digitisation of records.
Since September 2019, teachers are being repeatedly asked to upload their educational documents online but 100% compliance has not been achieved yet.
In the order, additional project director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rohit Tripathi said since teachers had their own login, they could have easily uploaded the documents. “Non-compliance of repeated orders shows lax attitude of teachers,” said Tripathi’s letter to the basic shiksha adhikaris.
The directives to stop salary of teachers who fail to upload their high school marksheet and certificate is based on a September 18 status report of documents uploaded on the portal.
The report, prepared by the directorate of basic education, shows that around 20% of assistant teachers and head masters are yet to upload one or more academic records on the portal. Over 27% shiksha mitras have not uploaded documents, the status report said.
In figures, over 9,000 assistant teachers of primary schools and 3,500 head teachers in primary schools/assistant teachers in junior schools are yet to upload their high school marksheet.
The number of assistant teachers in primary school and head teachers (primary level) who have not uploaded their high school certificates is over 15,000 and 7,000, respectively.
In Lucknow, out of 3,003 assistant teachers in primary schools, 2,872 have uploaded their high school marksheet and 2,777 have uploaded their high school certificate. Among 1,977 head teachers (primary school)/assistant teachers (junior school) in Lucknow, 1,915 and 1,786, respectively, have uploaded their high school marksheets and certificates.