Chhatrapur: Amid the ongoing process of scrutinizing teachers’ certificates and other documents to detect fake ones, the administration has stopped salaries of 10 block education officers (BEOs) in Ganjam district, a report said.
The report said that for various reasons, the scrutiny is getting delayed. The directorate of education has ordered action against the officials over delay in scrutiny of certificates.
However, various quarters have been alleging that officials of the education department and police officials are protecting the teachers who have grabbed jobs on the basis of forged certificates.
It is argued that as the process gets delayed, fake teachers get time to knock at the court’s door. It is said that certificates deposited at one office are not shifted to upper level offices for scrutiny.
Though officials have sent certificates to various boards and universities for verification, reports are not available from the latter. As a result, the fake teachers are allowed to work and get salaries.
Given the delay in scrutiny, the education department has held up the salaries of 10 BEOs in Dharakote, Kabisuryanagar, Khallikota, Shergad, Aska, Hinjili, Patrapur and Ganjam blocks in the current month.
The education department had received complaints that 102 teachers have grabbed jobs by furnishing forged documents. A list of fake teachers has been sent to the district education officer and 22 block education officers.
A case in this regard is sub-judice at the High Court. Action taken reports are not available from block officials. Some BEOs have so far filed FIRs at different police stations against 45 teachers.
Police investigations are in some cases are getting delayed, leading to delay in action against teachers. Meanwhile, five more teachers have been sacked. In 2019, five fake teachers had been arrested in the district.
Then, the district education officer directed the BEOs to take disciplinary measures against the teachers, who have got employed by producing fake certificates.
Chhatrapur BEO Abinash Satpathy said that the verification of documents of the teachers whose jobs have been regularized since 2011 is still going on.
It was learnt that verification reports about certificates of 44 CT teachers, 14 BEd teachers and 262 other teachers are yet to be available from the universities concerned and the Board of Secondary Education.
PNN
