BHUBANESWAR: The state government recommended Crime Branch enquiry into the alleged recruitment of fake teachers under Ujjwal scheme on Thursday. The order came after a number of teachers have been recruited in different districts on the basis of a false letter issued by an organisation left the school and mass education department in tizzy.
“We are really surprised that a false letter has been issued to give recruitment to teachers in different districts. We have already ordered a departmental enquiry into the matter and a crime branch probe has also been ordered,” said school and mass education secretary Ranjan Chopra.
Sources said, a letter has been issued to district education officers from joint secretary of the department where they were asked ‘to allow dedicated teacher appointed by Diligence Learning Focus Society (DLFS) Trust in voluntary basis. The concerned Block Education Officers of your district may pleased be instructed to allow to teach in the schools’, the letter from DLFS reads.
The department has issued a letter to all the district and block education officers apart from all the directors under the department to ensure that no unauthorized teacher is allowed to teach in schools. “This was certainly a false letter and we don’t know who sent it. But we have instructed the headmasters of various primary and upper primary schools not to allow any teachers without authentic orders from the government,” said Biswanath Pradhan, additional secretary of the department.
[Source”timesofindia”]
