The Madhya Pradesh School Education Department has issued 851 compassionate appointment orders in the past four to five days for dependants of deceased teachers and other staff, according to an official state statement on 28 September 2026. Bhopal issued 251 of those orders two days earlier, taking the running total to 851.
The bulk of the movement came from a two-day sprint that cleared pending files. School Education Minister Uday Pratap Singh had said on 24 September that about 600 orders were issued within 48 hours out of roughly 859 pending cases, as reported by Indian Masterminds. The department told the same outlet that another 30 orders were expected and the remaining files were under active review.
“Long-pending compassionate appointment cases have been expedited to provide financial support to the families of deceased teachers and employees,” the state statement said.
The state has framed the exercise as part of a broader welfare push in the department. “Under the leadership of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, the Madhya Pradesh government is working to realise the concept of good governance on the ground by giving the highest priority to sensitivity, quick decisions and public welfare,” the government said in its 28 September note.
Compassionate appointment schemes across Indian states allow a dependent, typically a spouse or an adult child, to be considered for a government post after the in-service death of an employee. Backlogs of unresolved files have been a recurring grievance for teacher unions and families, and states have periodically cleared them in batches.
MP’s Bhopal Samachar earlier published a district-wise list of the first tranche of 600 appointments in Hindi. The department has said its wider effort combines these appointments with employee grievance camps and infrastructure investments across schools. Union representatives will now watch how quickly the remaining pending files close, and whether the exercise extends to other departments in the state.
