UP teaching fraud: Woman complains of ‘misuse’ of her name, degree

Shahira Naim

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, June 9

Ending days of suspense, the real Anamika Shukla on Tuesday lodged a complaint in Gonda against unknown persons for misusing her documents to take up jobs at Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) campuses across several districts of Uttar Pradesh.

On Saturday, a teacher believed to be Anamika Shukla was arrested from the Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) office in Kasganj for allegedly working in 25 KGBVs simultaneously and claiming Rs 1 crore as remuneration.

Speaking to reporters in Gonda, the real Anamika Shukla said in 2007 she had applied for a science teacher’s job in KGBV for Sultanpur, Jaunpur, Basti, Mirzapur and Lucknow districts.

However, she did not go for counseling in any of the districts.

She said she was not teaching at any school at present, neither had she ever taught in the past.

Daughter of Subhash Chand, Anamika is a resident of Bhulideeh village in the Kamrawa area of Gonda district.

In her complaint submitted personally to Gonda BSA Inderjit Prajapati, Anamika provided the record of her qualification from High School to TTE.

She also submitted scanned copies of her original documents and her photograph to help in investigating the fake Anamika Shuklas who were working under her name.

In her complaint, Anamika mentioned that she came to know through media reports that her name had been misused and documents forged to take up jobs in various KGBVs.

Inderjit Prajapati said now that the original Anamika Shukla had surfaced and had lodged a complaint with the police, the investigation would pick up speed.

Earlier in the day, oblivious to the developments in Gonda, UP Minister for Basic Education Satish Dwivedi admitted that Anamika Shukla’s forged documents were used to take up jobs in nine KGBVs in the districts of Baghpat, Varanasi, Aligarh, Kasganj, Amethi, Rae Bareli, Prayagraj, Saharanpur and Ambedkarnagar.

However, he clarified that a few teachers did not join, some others went on long leave or resigned.

Only six teachers actually took up the jobs on the basis of the same set of forged documents and collectively duped the department of Basic Education of Rs 12,24,700 instead of the Rs 1 crore that was claimed earlier, said Dwivedi.

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He said once the real Anamika Shukla was nabbed things would become clear.

The minister said the teacher arrested and sent to jail in Kasganj was one of the several Anamika Shuklas.

He said following the unearthing of the racket, the department had sought original documents of 5,000 teachers of 746 KGBVs across the state for verification along with their Aadhaar cards and IDs.