As many as 39 Government run primary teachers, while appearing for the ongoing certified training (teaching) examination, were caught indulging in malpractice in several centres in the district here. Notably, as many as 496 teachers are appearing the examination in the district.
Those teachers, who are not trained, have been appearing it and if they get through, their job will be regularized. According to official sources, the teachers who were booked under malpractice have been restricted to appear the examination in other subjects. Meanwhile, intellectual mass condemned the cheating by the teachers as an unethical act. They demanded that the errant teachers who were booked in malpractices should be terminated. When contacted, DI of schools Charan Nayak stated that he will take departmental action against the teachers who were nabbed indulging in malpractice.