Coaching Business: Take action against 97 teachers

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday requested the cabinet division to take actions against 97 teachers of eight schools and colleges for running coaching centres.

The commission sent letters to the chiefs and managing committees of the institutions and the cabinet division secretary in this regard, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya, the commission's public relations officer, said.

The ACC suggested taking actions against 36 teachers of Ideal School and College, 24 of Motijheel Model School and College, seven of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College and five of Rajuk Uttara Model School and College, 12 of Motijheel Government Boys High School, four of Motijheel Government Girls High School, one of Khilgaon Government High School and eight of Government Laboratory High School.

The letters, signed by ACC Secretary M Shamsul Arefin, said the anti-graft body in its probe found the teachers serving the same institutions for years and suggested that they should be transferred.

The commission requested the cabinet division to take action against the teachers in government institutions under Government Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1985, for 'misconduct'.

It recommended action against those in MPO-enlisted institutions under a "2012 policy to stop teachers from involving with coaching business", Pranab said.

“Taking departmental action against the teachers, who have been earning illegally, can be considered,” the letter read.

Due to such businesses, students are passing exams studying less and having little grasps on the textbooks.

The ACC in a probe, in November, found 522 teachers of government schools in the capital bribing education directorate officers to stay in the city.

To continue their coaching business, the teachers of 24 government schools evaded transfer orders for 10 to 33 years by bribing officials at the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education.