Friday, December 23, 2011

Locals demand probe into K’handi school building scam

The Pioneer, Dec 23, 2011

The salaries of defaulting 28 headmasters of Bhawanipatna education sub-division and 16 headmasters of Dharamgarh education sub-division have been withheld for financial irregularities in building works in their schools.
They allegedly maintained serious lapses in the school buildings works as most of the projects are lying incomplete beyond their due time of completion. These building construction works had been started in 2004 but till date they are unfinished.
Sources said Rs 41.89 lakh had been given as advance to authorities of various schools in Kalahandi district to undertake the building works in 2004.
The locals have demanded a thorough probe into all irregularities and strict punishment against not only the headmasters of the schools but also all the officials who connived with them.

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