India, Aug. 16 -- The state education department has directed all government-aided and partially aided schools to upload and verify the original approval documents of teachers and non-teaching staff appointed between November 7, 2012, and November 18, 2016. The move is part of a large-scale verification drive in the wake of the Shalarth ID scam, where fake teacher profiles were created on the government-run payments portal to siphon crores of rupees.

During this four-year period, there was a ban on issuing new Shalarth IDs owing to a pause in teacher recruitments in the state. However, thousands of appointments were made under special circumstances through a provision allowed by law, largely in schools located in tribal areas, government...