Departmental action against JD Sangma, two others
SHILLONG: The Education department has directed the Director, School Education and Literacy, Ambrose Marak to issue appointment letters to those deserving candidates who were deprived of jobs due to the education scam and to cancel the appointments of tainted candidates who were earlier given appointments.
Principal Secretary, Education, PK Srivastava, told reporters on Wednesday that another direction was issued to initiate departmental proceedings against the then Director of Mass and Elementary Education, JD Sangma, and two others for the mess. However, former Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, under whose tenure the recruitment anomalies had occurred, escaped any action.
Though the orders were issued in mid-November, the Director of Education is yet to act on the orders of the higher ups.
Srivastava said that some more formalities need to be completed before appointment letters are issued to the deserving candidates by the Director of Education.
The official, further, said that initially the petitioners who had filed the case in the Court will be appointed. The Government will issue fresh advertisements for the remaining posts, he added.
According to sources, at least 100 appointments, made earlier, are likely to be terminated by the department to accommodate the deserving candidates.
The decision of the Education department was based on the recommendations of the High Level Scrutiny Committee on education scam after a CBI inquiry found that the score sheets of deserving candidates for appointment as government teachers were tampered with.
The CBI was acting on the order of the Court following a petition filed by the aggrieved candidates.
The CBI which probed the scam had named Ampareen Lyngdoh in connection with the scam based on the confessions of JD Sangma.