Over 5,000 MP Government School Teachers Still Attached To Offices Despite Recall Orders

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Over 5,000 government school teachers in the state are still attached to government offices despite repeated directives from the Commissioner of Public Instructions (CPI) and district administrations to end the practice.

The School Education Department is facing mounting pressure to recall these teachers as schools, already grappling with staff shortages, continue to function without educators who have spent years on administrative attachments instead of teaching in classrooms.

The recall exercise has encountered resistance in several districts, with departmental sources claiming that some collectors and senior administrative officials have shown little interest in ending the attachments, slowing the implementation of the government's directive.

The department first directed 213 attached teachers from different districts to return to their original schools and later instructed all district education officers (DEOs), through a video conference, to identify and recall more attached teachers in their respective districts.

While a few districts, including Bhopal, have initiated action, a large number of teachers remain posted in the State Secretariat, offices of MLAs, collectors, SDMs and other government institutions instead of classrooms.

Teachers at Secretariat