Bihar Madarsa and Sanskrit School Teachers Receive Pending Salary While Forty Percent Still Wait for Clearance
Thousands of teachers working in non-government aided Madarsas and traditional Sanskrit schools across the state have finally received significant relief regarding their long-delayed earnings. The state education department recently held a high-level review meeting to resolve issues that have troubled rural educators for nearly half a year. Classroom instructors and institutional staff had been managing their homes without monthly wages for five to seven continuous months. This decisive administrative step aims to bring financial stability back into their households while reforming the daily governance of these institutions.
The prolonged non-payment of salaries had created widespread difficulties for educators in both religious and traditional academic fields. In many homes, families had to borrow money for basic groceries, medical treatments, and daily travel expenses simply to keep coming to work. The recent meeting made it clear that basic administrative delays should not stand between hardworking teachers and their rightful monthly income. Officials received strict directions to address the problem immediately and release the long-pending funds without creating extra layers of red tape.
The scale of the support program is massive across rural and urban districts alike. The state currently oversees more than one thousand nine hundred and forty-two aided Madarsas along with over seven hundred recognized and aided Sanskrit schools. Together, these educational centers employ more than twenty-five thousand teachers and non-teaching workers. To address this enormous backlog, the department approved and initiated the release of around three hundred and twenty crore rupees specifically designated for settling these dues directly into staff bank accounts.
A key turning point in this payout process is the compulsory verification through the official e-Shikshakosh online portal. The department established a firm rule stating that salary funds will only move into verified personal bank accounts. Every teacher and support staff member had to link their personal identity documents, complete their digital service books, and register their daily work records on the platform. This modern check ensures that public money reaches only genuine teachers who are physically present and active in their assigned institutions.
Recent departmental figures show that the digital push has already delivered positive outcomes for a major share of the workforce. Between sixty and sixty-five percent of educators who had complete records, verified paperwork, and active portal accounts received their pending dues ahead of the annual Teacher Day timeline observed on September 5. For thousands of these individuals, the bank transfer brought an end to an exhausting period of financial insecurity and allowed them to refocus on classroom teaching.
However, the clearance drive is not completely finished. Nearly thirty-five to forty percent of teachers are still waiting for their money because of ongoing verification bottlenecks. In several aided institutions, service record verifications remain half-done due to missing older documents. Other files remain blocked because local district education offices have been slow to process physical salary bills. In response, top officials instructed local district education officers to quickly solve these pending paperwork problems online so the remaining teachers receive their money without further delay.
Alongside salary payments, the state government decided to stop all offline paperwork completely. After the September 5 deadline, no school or teacher can submit physical letters for official work. Every single request, whether it is for taking casual leave, fixing a salary error, or updating service records, must now be submitted exclusively through the e-Shikshakosh digital portal. This move aims to eliminate unofficial middlemen, speed up file approvals, and make district-level education officers directly accountable for any delays.
Another major breakthrough from the meeting is the long-awaited decision to start hiring regular school librarians. For years, library rooms across high schools and intermediate institutions remained locked or unmanaged because posts were left empty as senior staff retired. The department has now ordered officials to finalize the librarian recruitment rules immediately and accelerate the selection drive. This step will not only create fresh government job openings for trained candidates but will also revive reading spaces for young boys and girls.
The state is also moving to preserve and upgrade school assets through the creation of integrated campuses. Under this plan, government Sanskrit high schools in districts like Araria, Saran, Madhubani, and Bhagalpur that own vacant land will be turned into integrated campuses. These upgraded centers will teach modern science, computer literacy, and standard subjects side by side with classical Sanskrit grammar and literature. Local district administrations have been given strict instructions to immediately remove illegal encroachments and land grabbers from these valuable educational grounds.
To ensure these directives do not stall in remote areas, the department is fixing leadership gaps at the local block level. Many Block Education Officer positions have been lying vacant, forcing distant managers to hold temporary dual responsibilities. To solve this, the government is placing newly appointed education officers into active field postings. In areas where vacancies remain open, local Block Development Officers will step in temporarily to ensure that teacher services, digital uploads, and school inspections continue smoothly without administrative breakdowns.