Fearing action, over 1,400 schoolteachers resign

PATNA: Over 1,400 primary schoolteachers have resigned till date apprehending legal action for allegedly taking the job on fake educational certificates. "We expect more teachers to resign by July 9, the deadline set for doing so to escape punishment," said Vinodanand Jha, OSD to principal secretary, education department, on Thursday. The resignations follow the Patna high court directive to the state government on Monday last week to ask the schoolteachers having fake or invalid certificates to resign within a week of the public notice to be published within two days. Hearing a PIL, the court had also observed that teachers who continued in service with fake certificates even after the deadline shall be liable to punishment and recovery of the salary paid to them. TOI