Patna, First Published Jul 7, 2022, 4:18 PM IST
There will be teachers around us who do not teach the children properly and are not committed to their work at all. Such people’s focus is not on studying but on monthly salary. But this college teacher in Bihar is an exception to such teachers. What he did was return the 23 lakh rupees he got as salary without teaching the children.
Dr. is an Assistant Professor at Nitishwar College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Lalan Kumar. He is a Hindi teacher. He says that since he joined college, his class attendance has been low. Meanwhile, Covid also came. With this the teaching in the college also stopped. But only salary was coming exactly every month.
However, he openly says that he can’t just sit and collect salary without doing his own work. That too is not a fluke, but he has returned the entire 33 months salary. The salary for the last 33 months is twenty three lakh rupees
The 33-year-old returned to Bihar’s Ambedkar University.
In his letter to the Vice-Chancellor, he said that his conscience does not allow him to sit idle and collect his salary. Kumar was appointed on September 24, 2019. He says that out of 131 students in the Hindi section, not a single one attended his class. Then, during the covid era, the classes shifted to online. There too, only children who could be counted on the fingers participated in the class. Then he asks how to get that salary. Therefore, he did not have to think twice to return the entire amount taken as salary. BR Ambedkar Bihar University Registrar Dr. Kumar handed over a check of Rs 23,82,228 to Thakur. He also sent a letter to everyone from the VC to the President of India explaining what was going on in the colleges.
Dr. Thakur Kumar’s check was not accepted at first. Instead, the registrar asked him to quit. But Kumar’s demand was that he should be transferred to the colleges where his children study or to the university’s PG department. He also raised complaints about the university’s educational practices. His complaint was that there was no atmosphere for teaching in the college.
Meanwhile, the registrar has sought an explanation from the college principal on the issue of non-attendance of the children. “Kumar’s case is extraordinary and deserves urgent attention. The matter is being discussed with the Vice Chancellor. The college principal will be asked immediately to explain the children’s absence,” he told the media.
But the college principal Manoj Kumar severely criticized the teacher’s action. He criticized that this was just a ploy by Kumar to get transfer from the college. “Kumar did this not because the students were absent, but as a pressure tactic to get a transfer,” the principal said. When asked why students were absent from college even before Covid, the principal did not have a clear answer. Meanwhile, if the demand is not accepted, Kumar has decided to start a sit-in in front of the college.
Kumar completed his Hindi PG from JNU, Delhi. MPhil and PhD from Delhi University. After that, he started working.
Last Updated Jul 7, 2022, 4:18 PM IST