‘Fake’ degree probe in Bihar: For 53,000 contract teachers, ‘last chance’ to prove degrees real
The Bihar government will soon ask 53,000 teachers to prove the authenticity of their education degrees against which they secured contract jobs between 2007 and 2015, according to government sources.
The degrees of more than 1.10 lakh teachers have been under scrutiny of the Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) since 2014 after a Patna High Court direction.
But with the High Court’s deadline, January 12, approaching, a VIB source said, “As there has been little headway in getting degrees of all the teachers despite combined efforts of the bureau and the Education Department, we have now decided to put the onus on teachers to prove their degrees.”
Earlier, district education officers had been asked to collect degree folders of the teachers in question.
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