SHILLONG: The services of as many as 246 teachers will be terminated after CBI and subsequently the High Level Scrutiny Committee detected anomalies in the appointment of teachers in 2009-10 when current Urban affairs minister Ampareen Lyngdoh was the education minister.
Many were appointed after their marks were fudged by the higher ups.
While 53 teachers will lose their jobs in Shillong, as many as 92 teachers will be affected in Jowai. Apart from this 37 would be terminated from Amlarem, 21 from Tura and 43 from Dadenggre.
Fresh appointments will be made following the terminations.
An education department official said that after the show cause was issued to 246 teachers on why action cannot be taken, the department received their replies.
“We are processing the replies of the ‘tainted’ teachers so that proper action can be taken,” the official added.
Meanwhile, following the move on the part of the education department to cancel the appointment of the tainted teachers, some serving teachers from Garo Hills and Tura sought the intervention of the Meghalaya High Court and the case is still pending.
However, legal sources said that there would not be any problem in terminating the services of the tainted teachers since the Government was acting as per the direction of the Court which had constituted the High Level Scrutiny Committee.
The action was based on the report of the High Level Scrutiny Committee which separated the tainted from the non-tainted. While show cause notices were issued on December 20 to the tainted teachers, the department received the replies on January 10 which was the last day for submission of explanations.
It was based on the recommendations of several ministers and legislators that corrections were made in the score-sheets of the candidates to appoint them as teachers at the cost of deserving candidates who were deprived of appointments.
Termination of services
Jowai: 92
Shillong: 53
Dadenggre: 43
Amlarem: 37
Tura: 21
Total: 246
