Bhubaneswar:<\/strong> The school and Mass Education (S&ME) department today slapped a show-cause notice on the headmaster of Durgadevi high school in Kanas block of Puri for engaging his students in cleaning the utensils at night after a feast in the educational institution following a science exhibition.<\/p>\n Director of Secondary Education department Sushant Kumar Dash sought a clarification in this regard from the headmaster identified as Bijay Kumar Jena. Appropriate action will be taken against the headmaster in case he fails to furnish a satisfactory reply in support of the act done by him.<\/p>\n Jena is required to submit his clarification within next two days, else will face administrative action.<\/p>\n Worth mentioning, a district-level science exhibition was organised on the premises of the school, for which a feast was also arranged. Several students of the school located in Dayavihar of Benagaon under Kanas block washed utensils after allegedly being asked to do so by a teacher on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n A video of the students washing utensils went viral on different social media platforms.<\/p>\n The invitees and participants left the science exhibition venue on Tuesday after the feast was over when a teacher allegedly took some students of Class IX and Class X to the riverbank of Daya near the school at around 11.00 pm and asked them to wash the soiled utensils used during cooking.<\/p>\n \u201cThe incident took place without my knowledge. Help of the students was sought by a teacher of the school, which was wrong,\u201d the headmaster earlier said apologising over the matter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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