The Haryana School Education department has suspended two officials, including a deputy superintendent, and charge-sheeted two others for providing “wrong information” to the Vidhan Sabha in response to a question Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) MLA Naina Chautala had asked about shortage of teachers in Badhra assembly constituency.
Tendering an “unqualified and unconditional apology” for the lapse, the director, school education in a communiqué to assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta assured that there would not be “any misrepresentation of the facts in future.” During the last sitting of the winter session of the assembly on Wednesday, deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala’s mother and Badhra assembly segment MLA Naina Singh Chautala had put education minister Kanwar Pal in the dock for supplying incorrect information to the House. Following this, the speaker had asked the minister to take action against the erring officials.
Talking to media persons Speaker Gupta said that he had received information from the education department about the action taken against the officials responsible for supplying incorrect information about the shortage of school teachers in Badhra assembly segment.