Chhatrapur: The administration has intensified investigation into cases of forged certificates and documents based on which many people have grabbed jobs of teachers in Ganjam.
Meanwhile, five more teachers were sacked while cases of fraud were filed against eight teachers.
Reports said due to lack of coordination at various levels, the administration has failed to receive scrutiny reports about forged certificates of educational qualifications, trainings and castes submitted by teachers.
It was learnt that the block education office at Chhatrapur has filed FIRs against eight teachers at different police stations – five at Chhatrapur police station, two at Chamakhandi police station and one at Aryapalli marine police station.
Cases against two teachers are sub judice at the High Court. Besides, five lady teachers were sacked from services while departmental proceedings against three teachers are in progress.
So far, documents of seven teachers were found genuine. It may be noted here that amid allegations of fake teachers across the state, the directorate of education had sought reports from the district administration about detection of fake teachers.
The administration has not yet recovered the salaries which the sacked and fake teachers had received in their service period. On the other hand, police investigation against them has allegedly slowed down.
All the eight accused are out on bail. Chhatrapur BEO Abinash Satpathy said the verification of documents of the teachers who have been regularized since 2011 is still going on.
“The school and mass education department had issued another letter-13216 in 2019 to check the originality of the teachers’ documents,” he added.
Verification reports about certificates of 44 CT teachers, 14 BEd teachers and 262 others teachers are yet to be available from the universities and the board of secondary education concerned, Satpathy added.
He also said that as verification reports are getting delayed, action against the fake teachers is delayed. Notably, in Mach 2020, police had arrested a teacher on charge of furnishing fake certificates.
The accused person of Aska was posted as the assistant teacher at Sahapur Upper Primary School. Aska police had busted a racket involved in preparing forged certificates and documents.
In this connection, the police arrested two fake teachers. The racket had a close link with Berhampur University where some officials were involved in making fake documents with the help of middlemen.
Nine teachers had earlier been booked for allegedly submitting fake B Ed certificates issued by Berhampur University. In 2019, five fake teachers had been arrested in the district.
Then, the District Education Officer directed the Block Education Officer to take disciplinary measures against the teachers, who have grabbed jobs with fake certificates.
PNN
