The Education department has started preparing a list of such officers, teachers and other employees who don’t reside near their place of posting and instead take up long journeys daily from their homes to offices and schools. These lists would be submitted to the education directorate before June 25.
In an order directed to all Chief Education Officers (CEO) the Director General (DG) education, Captain Alok Shekhar Tiwari has said that the practice of travelling long distances for attending work places is against the norms. He said that the many teachers, officers and employees of the department do not reside near their offices or schools which comes under financial irregularity as the employees get house rent allowance of the place they are posted at. After the CEOs would submit the lists mentioning the names of the teachers involved in travelling distances to workplaces, the department would involve local Intelligence Units (lIU) to prepare report on them.
In his letter, the DG education has also asked the CEO’s to prepare bock wise lists of the private schools under their jurisdiction which are not following the government order for not charging readmission fees, capitation fee and caution money.
The DG said that a meeting of all distirct level officers of education department with Education Minister is scheduled in last week of June and all officers should attend the meeting with information like private schools not following the GO on readmission fees and caution money, the lists of teachers/ officers and employees not residing near their workplaces, the status of involvement of business houses/ corporate/ NGO for undertaking activities under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and work plan for novel attempts in education. The officers are also directed to submit the details of departmental activities and status of Confidential Report (CR) of employees.