Srinagar, March 21 -- The Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) has launched an in-depth inquiry into the 'unauthorized absence' of a Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teacher at Primary School Aragam in north Kashmir's Bandipora district.
The teacher has not allegedly fulfilled his teaching duties for the past 21 years, instead securing non-teaching assignments at the Chief Education Officer's (CEO) Office and the Deputy Commissioner's (DC) Office in Bandipora.
Despite being appointed as a teacher under the ReT scheme in 2004, he has allegedly never been present in the classroom. Instead, he secured attachments to government offices, drawing an annual salary of Rs 13 lakh while students in his designated school remained without a teacher.
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