No E-Attendance, No Salary: Government Warns Of Legal Action Against Guest Teachers' Protests

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The School Education Department, cracking the whip on Atithi Shikshaks (guest teachers), warned them that their honorarium would not be paid if they do not mark their attendance electronically.

Meanwhile, an organisation of guest teachers has called for protest demonstrations at district and tehsil levels that would include public burning of the order of the Directorate of Public Instruction.

The department, in turn, has written to the collectors and SPs of all districts to take legal action against teachers staging protests.

The department has warned that the guest teachers not recording their attendance through ‘Hamare Shikshak’ App from July 18 will be considered absent and will not be entitled to their honorarium.

Instructions have been issued to all District Education Officers (DEOs) for this. The Department has started recording attendance of guest teachers through the app from this academic session (July 1). But a review of the first 15 days revealed that more than 80% of guest teachers have not marked attendance through the app.

The department also released the report of e-attendance of guest teachers of all districts. According to the report, out of 55 districts of the state, Dindori is the only district where 57% guest teachers have registered e-attendance, followed by 48% in Jhabua, 45% in Khargone, 44-44% in Narsinghpur and Shahdol.

Anuppur was the most backward district, where none of the 17 guest teachers marked attendance even for a single day. Besides, 7-7% attendance was registered in Niwari and Alirajpur and 8-8% in Mauganj and Harda.

Ravikant Gupta General Secretary, MP Atithi Shikshak Samanvay Samiti said, "A memorandum was submitted to the collectors of all districts of the state on Thursday in protest against this order. We demand that until guest teachers are not given facilities on a par with regular teachers, we should not be forced to mark e-attendance. The department wants to ruin our careers by asking the district collectors and SPs to send us to jail".

Published on: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 10:40 PM IST