Patna, The Bihar government has directed the education department to scrutinise the salaries and allowances of all its officers, teachers and non-teaching staff before releasing payments for next month, following the detection of irregularities in salary processing, officials said on Friday.
This scrutiny shall be made mandatory before the salary payments for the next month are released,” the letter said. “The salaries and allowances of all officers, teachers and non-teaching staff, including headmasters, under the education department must be scrutinised by the department’s senior officers. In a letter dated October 9, Finance Department Principal Secretary Vinay Kumar asked the education department to ensure strict scrutiny of salary bills and take disciplinary and administrative action against officials responsible for irregularities.
Reacting to the development, Deputy Chief Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav told reporters that the CAG had flagged irregularities in the processing of salary bills in the education department, prompting the finance department to direct it to scrutinise the salaries and allowances of all officers, teachers and non-teaching staff before releasing next month’s payments.
