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Bihar withholds pay of 300 teachers for fake admissions
Saturday January 14, 2012 09:07:51 PM,
IANS
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Patna: The Bihar
government has decided to withhold the salary of 300 teachers in Patna district suspected to be involved in a fake admissions
racket, officials said Saturday.
A district official told IANS that the government had decided to
withhold the salaries of 300 teachers, including headmasters of 62
schools in Bikram and Naubatpur blocks in Patna, on charges of
allowing fake admissions.
"Fake admissions cannot happen without the involvement of
headmasters and teachers. Funds meant for such schemes go directly
to the district education officer (DEO), who releases the money to
the schools falling under this area," he said.
According to officials, nearly ten percent of enrolled students
were found present in the schools. "The attendance figures were
less than the number of students in admission registers,"
officials said.
The action by authorities in Patna came a day after Chief Minister
Nitish Kumar ordered an inquiry into incidents of fake admissions
in schools,
Earlier, the education department had decided to withhold the
salary of a dozen teachers in Sasaram, district headquarters of
Rohtas.
Education department officials said that till date more than
437,000 fake admissions had come to light in nearly a dozen
districts.
Anjani Kumar Singh, principal secretary in the education
department said: "The fake admissions were exposed following a
special drive. The government has cancelled all fake admissions in
these districts."
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