Bhubaneswar: The education officers (DEOs) of 11 districts have not been furnishing information on school teachers who are in service by submitting fake certificates. Hence, the Director of Elementary Education department earlier asked them to comply with data on fake certificate cases.
Writing in this regard, the department had insisted that the DEOs must reply by today (January 30).
DEOs of the districts include Balasore, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Deogarh, Gajapati, Jagatsinghpur, Kalahandi, Kendrapara, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, and Sambalpur. They were requested to personally look into the matter and were asked to submit the requisite data within a stipulated period of three days.
Worth mentioning, the directorate had also written vide its letter No-27080, dated 29.12.2023. Due to incomplete data, the compliance affidavit in WPC No-18752/ 2018 (PIL filed by one Sanjaya Kumar Moharana) could not be filed till now, the official communiqué said.
