Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 03:
The task of detecting genuine employees from the fake ones in the Education Department so as to terminate services of fake appointees and book them under law has been entrusted to the Vigilance Department, informed Education Minister L Jayantakumar to some media persons today.
Asserting that all out efforts are being made by the State Government to cleanse the Department of all ills with special emphasis on detecting fake appointment cases so as to streamline and promote effective education system, the Minister opined that it has become inevitable to curb corrupt practices in the Department whose track record had been on the wane in the past few years due to the chronic problem of employees appointed on the sly.
Iterating that sleuths of Vigilance Department had already begun investigation into fake appointment cases, Jayantakumar asserted that on submission of the probe report relevant and appropriate exercise under the law would be initiated to terminate those employees whose appointment is found to be dubious.
Regarding burning down of some schools in the hill districts in connection with the NBSE affiliation issue, the Minister said taking into account suffering of the affected students the State Government has sanctioned an amount of Rs 44 lakhs from the Planning Department's special development fund to reconstruct five schools on priority basis.
The schools listed for reconstruction include two each in Ukhrul and Chandel districts and one in Senapati.
Touching on the affiliation quagmire, he conceded that due to certain lapses in content of the ordinance draft placed before the Governor for consent return of the CM is being awaited to draft a fresh ordinance.
The matter needs to be thoroughly deliberated upon for which the CM's participation is essential, the Minister expressed while dismissing the DAN Govt's move as political gimmick intent on galvanising votes.
It is unlikely the Nagaland governor would approve the NBSE affiliation legislation adopted by the DAN Govt, he contemplated.