Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 06, 2010:
Contending that some of the candidates who do not fulfil the prescribed educational qualifications have been selected in the appointment of teachers under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in Senapati and Chandel district, RTI and human rights activist Wahengbam Joykumar has questioned why the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati district Nidhi Kesarwani and former Deputy Commissioner of Chandel Devesh Deval should not be penalised in this regard.
Talking to mediapersons today, Joykumar informed that appointment of teachers for the visually impaired, hearing impaired and mentally unsound students as well as for the post of Data Entry Operators under SSA in Chandel and Senapati district had been conducted in 2009. However, suspecting that some candidates who have been selected for the post of Data Entry Operators may not fulfil the prescribed educational qualification, an application had been filed under Right to Information Act to the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati and State Public Information Officer (SPIO) who is also the Project Director of SSA for providing the list of the selected candidates and details of their educational qualification.
After repeated appeals to the officers concerned, the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati district finally provided a list and later on issued a order declaring cancellation of the appointment of Ms Lanu Pinky as a teacher of hearing impaired as she did not fulfil the prescribed educational qualification.
The appointment of Thangtingmang Hangsing as Data Entry Operator in Senapati Dist too had been subsequently cancelled on the same ground of not fulfilling the prescribed educational qualification.
Similarly, appointment of Y Shantibala as a teacher for visual impaired under SSA in Chandel district has also been cancelled by an official order after she was found not fulfilling the prescribed qualification.
All these irregularities in the appointment process could be detected with the help of RTI Act, Joykumar said, while demanding to know why the Govt should not take action against DC Senapati and former DC Chandel for such irregularities.