The government had decided to discontinue relief quotas from fiscal year 2066/67 but there is no end to the exercise of power for securing the remaining quota. District Education Officer (DEO) Dev Narayan Yadav admits that the relief quotas have been in limbo due to an overflow of orders from the ministerial level on how the quotas should be allocated. "Persons come up with orders straight from the Minister for Education," he said.
According to sources, Minister Ram Chandra Kushwaha has ordered Yadav to distribute the quotas among his own activists, and the number of persons coming with his orders outnumbers the quotas themselves. Meanwhile, other political parties also keep pressuring the DEO to secure the quotas for their own cadres.
DEO Yadav said the quotas will be distributed along with the ´Per Child Fund (PCF)´ due to be disseminated from this year. The government came up with PCF after nullifying the relief quotas.
Last year a relief quota of 93 was distributed for schools in the district amid controversy over allegations that then DEO Hemanta Kumar Singh and teachers union officials used the quotas for personal benefit. The remaining quotas include 12 teachers for primary level, three for lower secondary and six for secondary level.
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