ACCUSED TEACHERS HAVE ADMITTED TO HAVING FORGED DOCUMENTS
GANGTOK, 15 Mar: Two students, next in line in the merit list [who secured the 25th and 26th positions] of the screening test will be replacing vacancies created in the Chief Minister’s Merit Scholarship scheme. This, following the uncovering of a fraud played out by the headmaster of Suntaley Junior High School and two other teachers who forged documents to enable their wards to sit for the screening test and get sponsored to reputed schools. [click here, here and here for background details]
Director, HRDD, CS Rao, while speaking to NOW! today, informed that the two students who secured the 25th and 26th ranks in the screening test will be joining Tashi Namgyal Academy and Pineridge School in Himachal Pradesh now.
“The file is on the processed. By Wednesday, admission orders will be handed over to these students,” said Mr. Rao.
These two students also hail from South Sikkim, as did the students who had been fraudulently placed by the Suntaley JHS headmaster.
It may be recalled that the headmaster and two teachers of Suntaley JHS had forged documents to show the children of two teachers [including the headmaster] as having studied at Suntaley JHS since class 1 and of having coming first and second in the class V exams [when in fact they were studying in private schools in the area]. With this, they had qualified to sit for the screening test of the ambitious scholarship programme and had gone on to land the scholarship.
On 23 February, the Department had struck off the names of the two wards from schools they had been sponsored to and on 26 February, served a show-cause notice to the three teachers for the forgery effected by them. The trio were served suspension order by the Department on 02 March.
Mr. Rao informed that the three accused - Headmaster, Purna Bahadur Gurung, and two teachers, Binod Gurung and Bhuwan Pandey - are under scrutiny by an enquiry team headed by Ganesh Chettri, HRDD Joint Director [South] assisted by Mr. Gyatso, Deputy Director as presenting officer.
He further informed that 15 days of enquiry have already finished and within the next 15 days, a detailed report will be submitted to the Department.
On reply to the show-cause notice served by the Department, the three accused, the Director informs, have confessed to their crime [in their written reply to the Department].
[SUBASH RAI]
GANGTOK, 15 Mar: Two students, next in line in the merit list [who secured the 25th and 26th positions] of the screening test will be replacing vacancies created in the Chief Minister’s Merit Scholarship scheme. This, following the uncovering of a fraud played out by the headmaster of Suntaley Junior High School and two other teachers who forged documents to enable their wards to sit for the screening test and get sponsored to reputed schools. [click here, here and here for background details]
Director, HRDD, CS Rao, while speaking to NOW! today, informed that the two students who secured the 25th and 26th ranks in the screening test will be joining Tashi Namgyal Academy and Pineridge School in Himachal Pradesh now.
“The file is on the processed. By Wednesday, admission orders will be handed over to these students,” said Mr. Rao.
These two students also hail from South Sikkim, as did the students who had been fraudulently placed by the Suntaley JHS headmaster.
It may be recalled that the headmaster and two teachers of Suntaley JHS had forged documents to show the children of two teachers [including the headmaster] as having studied at Suntaley JHS since class 1 and of having coming first and second in the class V exams [when in fact they were studying in private schools in the area]. With this, they had qualified to sit for the screening test of the ambitious scholarship programme and had gone on to land the scholarship.
On 23 February, the Department had struck off the names of the two wards from schools they had been sponsored to and on 26 February, served a show-cause notice to the three teachers for the forgery effected by them. The trio were served suspension order by the Department on 02 March.
Mr. Rao informed that the three accused - Headmaster, Purna Bahadur Gurung, and two teachers, Binod Gurung and Bhuwan Pandey - are under scrutiny by an enquiry team headed by Ganesh Chettri, HRDD Joint Director [South] assisted by Mr. Gyatso, Deputy Director as presenting officer.
He further informed that 15 days of enquiry have already finished and within the next 15 days, a detailed report will be submitted to the Department.
On reply to the show-cause notice served by the Department, the three accused, the Director informs, have confessed to their crime [in their written reply to the Department].
[SUBASH RAI]
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