Patna: Bihar’s Education Department has directed officials across all districts to urgently verify 72,287 educational and training certificates submitted by contractual teachers, following a Patna High Court order that flagged long-pending scrutiny of documents dating back nearly two decades.
The department said the certificates and marksheets belong to teachers appointed between 2006 and 2015, whose documents were never fully checked despite several rounds of monitoring. The pending certificates are spread across examination boards and universities in Bihar and other states, prompting the government to issue fresh instructions to district programme officers under the Samagra Shiksha scheme.
A recent review of the High Court-mandated monitoring process revealed that the verification of all 72,287 documents was still incomplete, officials said.
In response, education secretary Dinesh Kumar has ordered district authorities to complete the verification “without delay” and report compliance as part of the ongoing court-supervised process.
