PATNA: CM Nitish Kumar on Monday took umbrage at the absence of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) chairman Anand Kishor from the scheduled janata darbar, as a woman teacher complained that she was not getting her Matriculation certificate from the BSEB that had been sought by the headmaster of the school where she was posted.
The woman told the CM whenever she approached the BSEB after fulfilling due formalities, the officials always said it had been sent to the headmaster, but the school staff said the letter had not reached them, and it had been going on for the last couple of months.
At this, the CM looked for Kishor and when informed by other officials that the BSEB chairman was not around, he got angry and asked the officials concerned if the letter had been sent to him to be present at the janata darbar. Luckily, BSEB secretary Anup Kumar Sinha was present, which saved the situation. The CM referred the woman to him to get her problem resolved.
In other cases, the complainants pointed to irregularities that had been committed in the recruitment of schoolteachers. The CM also got upset in the course of hearing the complaint of a student from Gopalganj, who said he had not been able to get educational assistance under the student credit card scheme (SCCS). When asked for the details, the student said he had completed his +2 level studies from Delhi and was doing higher studies at Patliputra University.
The completion of the three-year course had taken six years, but he had not yet got the benefit under the SCCS because of the officials concerned. The CM asked the officials to understand the student’s problem and also duly solve it.
