Rai school director orders recovery of 9 lakh from employee

ROHTAK: Based on the probe report of damaging school stock items worth Rs 9 lakh, senior IPS officer

Bharti Arora

, who is the director of

Moti Lal Nehru Sports School

(MNSS) at

Rai

in

Sonipat

, on Monday ordered recovery of the entire sum from the erring employee for the loss incurred allegedly due to his negligence.

According to details, an inquiry was ordered against then store keeper Sunil Kaushik regarding various irregularities in purchase/storage condemnation of shoes on October 13, 2016. MNSS accounts officer-cum-administrative officer Raj Kumar Kaushal had conducted the inquiry and found Kaushik negligent in duty, which resulted in damage of students'

sports

items worth lakhs of rupees.

The report stated that the erring employee attempted to declare Bata shoes worth Rs 5 lakh, Liberty shoes worth Rs 2 lakh, school bags and other items worth lakhs condemned by showing those as damaged in rain. It said the items were purchased for school students from their fees charged by them.

The school has been controversy over irregularities in school administration. According to the audit report, syllabus books for session 2016-17 for classes VII to XII were purchased for Rs 2.92 lakh but not a single book was given to the students till January 31, 2017. "Thus purchasing of books without actual requirement is an explicit example of misuse of government fund. Whereas, there is every chance of these books may have become obsolete and deplete in the next session," said the report. It has also been found that these books were purchased just in three days from March 26 to 29, 2016, just to exhaust the budget in contravention of rules.