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News18
06-07-2025
- Politics
- News18
233 People, 4 Litres Paint, Single Wall: Rs 1 Lakh Bill For MP School Draws Netizens' Eyes
Last Updated: The bill, prepared by Sudhakar Construction, the firm responsible for the project, has gone viral on social media platforms for its eye-popping claims. In a bizarre incident, a school in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol employed an unimaginable 168 labourers and 65 masons to apply just four litres of paint on a single wall of a government school in district's Sakandi village. For this task, an amount of Rs 1.07 lakh was also allegedly withdrawn. The bill, prepared by Sudhakar Construction, the firm responsible for the project, has gone viral on social media platforms for its eye-popping claims. In a similar incident in another school of Nipania village, the same private contractor, Sudhakar Constructions, raised another bill worth Rs 2.3 lakh to carry out the task of applying 20 litres of paint, installing ten windows, and fitting four doors, the media reports said. According to bills, which are circulating online, 168 labourers and 65 masons were employed to paint the wall of the school in Sakandi village, and for the one in Nipania, manpower of 275 labourers and 150 masons was used. However, ground-level reports suggested that there aren't even that many labourers or masons in and around the two villages concerned. The bills in question are from government schools in Sakandi and Nipaniya villages under Beohari tehsil. आगे मजदूर,पीछे मजदूर,अब बताओ 4 लीटर पेंट से पुताई करने में लगे कितने मजदूर?शहडोल शासकीय विद्यालय में बिना काम के फर्जी बिल निकालकर भ्रष्टाचार, शिक्षा प्रदान नहीं की जा रही, अवैध लाभ के लिए बेची जा रही है। @DrMohanYadav51 @CMMadhyaPradesh @dmshahdol #MadhyaPradesh #Shahdol … — Kunal Choudhary (@KunalChoudhary_) July 4, 2025 As per the NDTV report, Sudhakar Constructions created the bill on May 5, however, it was already approved a month before it was even created by the school principal on April 4. Additionally, the bills are legally required to be presented with before-and-after pictures of the work, however, they were approved without any such photo, the report added. Following public outrage, the state's school education minister Rao Uday Pratap Singh directed the principal secretary and the commissioner of public instructions to initiate an investigation, Times of India reported. Meanwhile, the Shahdol district administration has also ordered a separate probe. District collector Kedar Singh has appointed Beohari SDM Narendra Singh Dhurvey to conduct the inquiry, the report added. 'A probe has been ordered, and notices have been issued to the district education officer as well as the principals of the schools. We have also received the probe report for the Sakandi village school," Shahdol district collector Kedar Singh told the news outlet. Based on the SDM's findings, the Shahdol district collector ordered action against the principals of both schools and issued a notice to the officiating district education officer. According to reports citing sources, the district collector has also ordered a thorough inquiry into all recent construction and maintenance works in government schools across the district, including the payments made for those projects. First Published: July 06, 2025, 17:54 IST
India Today
06-07-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Lakhs lost to fake repair bills, no work done in these 2 Madhya Pradesh schools
Two government schools in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district - Sakandi and Nipania - have come under scrutiny after social media exposed suspicious billing records showing inflated labour costs and maintenance claims, despite minimal or no actual work being carried the case of Sakandi government high school, official records show a payment of Rs 1.06 lakh was made for painting and repairs. However, the bill oddly claimed the engagement of 168 laborers and 65 masons for just 4 litres of oil paint. This raised serious questions about the authenticity of the completed in the government higher secondary school in Nipania, Rs 2.31 lakh was withdrawn for using 275 laborers and 150 masons to paint with just 20 litres of oil paint and install 10 windows and four doors. The revelations triggered a wave of public outrage after the bills surfaced online. Authorities, meanwhile, have now promised an inquiry. Shahdol District Education Officer Phool Singh Marpachi acknowledged the seriousness of the allegations and assured that the matter would be SDM Narendra Singh Dhurve confirmed to Aaj Tak that he had visited the schools for a spot inspection after learning of the alleged fraud. He admitted that not only was the quality of work substandard, but much of it remained incomplete. He added that all related documents had been summoned for verification and that strict action would follow against those found guilty.A peculiar anomaly was also flagged in the billing records: the principal of the Nipania school had reportedly verified the bill on April 4, 2025, while the construction agency, Sudhakar Constructions from Odari, generated the same bill a month later, on May 5. The timing discrepancy has further deepened suspicions of deliberate fraud and document manipulation. Despite these glaring errors, the treasury office approved the incident casts a harsh light on the deteriorating condition of rural schools in Madhya Pradesh. While central and state governments allocate funds regularly for infrastructure maintenance, poor quality construction followed by systematic misuse of maintenance grants through inflated and possibly forged bills continue to plague the education sector.- EndsMust Watch
New Indian Express
05-07-2025
- New Indian Express
443 workers fraudulently billed Rs 3.38 lakh for two MP govt school paint jobs using just 24 litres; probe ordered
BHOPAL: An unimaginable 168 labourers and 65 masons were engaged by a private contractor to apply just 4 litres of oil paint at a government school in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district – which cost a whopping Rs 1,06,984 to the state exchequer. The bizarre bill, pertaining to the application of just 4 litres of oil paint at the Government High School in Sakandi village of Beohari, was not the only example of alleged financial wrongdoing. A similar bill was generated and paid for construction and painting-related work at another school in the same development block of Shahdol district. At the Government Higher Secondary School in Nipania village, the same private contractor, Sudhakar Constructions, raised another bill worth Rs 2,31,685. This time, the charges were for applying 20 litres of oil paint, installing ten windows, and fitting four doors—works allegedly done with the help of 275 labourers and 150 masons. Not only were these bizarrely inflated bills raised by the private contractor, but the payments were reportedly cleared with the signatures of the principals of the two government schools and the in-charge district education officer, PS Marpachi. Surprisingly, while the bills claimed that 443 labourers and 215 masons were involved in the work at both schools, ground-level reports suggested that there aren't even that many labourers or masons in and around the two villages concerned.
