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All District Education Officers and District Program Officers (Establishment) have been instructed by the Director of Primary Education to immediately provide the pending folders to the Monitoring Department, Investigation Bureau. According to the departmental letter, out of total 69,809 folders, only 160 folders have been made available so far.
Sitamarhi: The Education Department of Bihar Government has once again adopted a tough stance regarding the educational and training certificates of teachers employed between 2006 and 2015. All District Education Officers and District Program Officers (Establishment) have been instructed by the Director of Primary Education to immediately provide the pending folders to the Monitoring Department, Investigation Bureau. According to the departmental letter, out of total 69,809 folders, only 160 folders have been made available so far. While 69,649 folders are still missing. This situation exposes departmental negligence and administrative laxity.
The Monitoring Department, Investigation Bureau had informed the Education Department through its letter that these folders are extremely needed in checking the certificates related to the appointment of teachers. Even before this, a departmental letter was issued in January 2023 directing the concerned officers to provide the folders, but even after two years, there was no significant improvement in the situation. Now reminding again, the Education Department has made it clear that further delay in this will not be tolerated.
It is being told that this matter is directly related to the transparency and validity of the appointment process of teachers. The period from 2006 to 2015 has been an important period of planning based teacher recruitment in Bihar. In such a situation, non-availability of certificates on such a large scale raises many serious questions. Only after scrutiny of these documents by the monitoring department will it become clear whether there was any fraud or irregularity in the appointments.
The Education Department has directed all the districts to ensure that the relevant folders are sent to the monitoring department as soon as possible. It has also been indicated that if the instructions are not followed, action can be taken against the responsible officials. After this letter, the stir in the education department has intensified and the search of folders has been started at the district level. Now it remains to be seen how quickly this matter, which has been pending for years, gets resolved and in which direction the surveillance investigation moves forward.
