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Wednesday, Aug 11, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka

Teacher recruitment racket busted

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, AUG. 10. Officials of the Department of Public Instruction, aided by the police, have busted a racket in the bogus recruitment and transfer of teachers in Kanakapura taluk of Bangalore district. The Director of Public Instruction, V.R. Patel, told The Hindu on Tuesday that Basavaraj Bidadihalli, a clerk in the Block Education Office in Kanakapura, was the brain behind the racket. With the help of Narayana Gowda, Block Education Officer, and Kashinath, a physical instructor in a government primary school, he had been running the racket for the past two years. Basavaraj had given fake appointment and transfer orders to 47 primary-school and nine high-school teachers.

Mr. Patel said the police recently arrested Iyyanna Gowda, a bogus teacher in a government primary school in the taluk. All the fake transfer orders were issued to unemployed youth from North Karnataka districts. They had obtained posting in schools located in remote places of the taluk through the fake orders and had been drawing salary for the past two years.

The police are searching for Basavaraj and the bogus teachers. A complaint has been filed against the block education officer and other officials at the Harohalli police station. The officer had been suspended.

Mr. Patel said he had appointed a director-level officer to investigate all cases of transfers of teachers in Kanakapura taluk during the last two years.

16 cases in Haveri

Our Hubli Special Correspondent reports:

The ramifications of the racket involving transfers of fictitious persons as teachers on the basis of fake certificates, which was reported in Kanakapura near Bangalore, appears to have hit Haveri district.

Inquiries with officials have revealed 16 such cases in the district, with 14 originating from Hangal and two in Haveri taluks. According to sources, the racket came to light when an official communication arrived at Hangal from Kanakapura asking for the service records and the last pay certificates of the teachers purported to have been transferred. However, their names were not found on the rolls in the schools mentioned.

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