UP Govt To Link Madrasa Teacher Salaries With Monthly Attendance Verification

The Uttar Pradesh government has tightened its payment system for teachers in aided madrasas, making monthly attendance verification mandatory before salaries are released. 

Under the new directive, madrasa managements must submit attendance certificates for each teacher every month, failing which payments will be withheld.

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The move follows revelations about Shamshul Huda, a madrasa teacher from Azamgarh, who continued to receive salary increments and later pension benefits despite living in Britain since 2007 and obtaining UK citizenship in 2013. 

Appointed as an Assistant Teacher (Aliya) in 1984, he was granted annual increments between 2007 and 2017 without proper scrutiny of his service records and even received voluntary retirement benefits in 2017. An ATS probe has also flagged suspicious international links connected to him, prompting action against several officials.

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Uttar Pradesh has 561 aided madrasas with 2.31 lakh students, 9,889 teachers, and 8,367 non-teaching staff. In light of the Azamgarh incident, the Minority Welfare Department has ordered strict enforcement of existing attendance rules. District Minority Welfare Officers will now conduct surprise inspections to ensure only regularly attending teachers are drawing salaries.