Taking a serious note of the wrong information submitted regarding the strength of students, the Punjab Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka on Friday directed the concerned authorities to suspend three school lecturers with immediate effect.
Economics lecturer and officiating principal Harjit Singh, Mathematics lecturer Naresh Kumar and Biology lecturer Neelam of Government Senior Secondary School, lehri in Bathinda district have been found guilty of submitting wrong information during a physical verification. “In a bid to keep intact their posts, these lecturers showed strength of 22 students (non-medical and medical) while during inquiry, the strength of students was found only five,” said Maluka. He informed that the State Education Department has initiated a rationalisation process in all the schools of the State to ensure required teacher taught ratio.
He said that the State Government was committed to provide quality education to all the students studying in Government schools and the rationalisation process was an effort to streamline the education infrastructure. Cautioning all the officers, teachers, officials of the education department
against submitting wrong information regarding the strength of students in their respective education institutions, Maluka categorically said that anyone found guilty of submitting wrong information would have to face the strict action.