Dead teacher tasked to make voters’ list

Siraha, January 16:

The Siraha District Education Office (DEO) has recommended the names of a dead and two retired teachers to collect voters’ list for an election to a constituent assembly. The District Election Office had asked names of working teachers to assign the job of voters’ list collection. “One Hari Lal Yadav, who died a week ago, was recommended,” said a teacher, Anirudra Thakur.

“Likewise, Pulkit Mandal of Baliniya school and Kapil Dev Jha of Bhawanipur school, who were recommended by the DEO, had retired five years ago,” Thakur said. “The names of some teachers recommended for the job will be corrected,” said Raj Kumar KC, chief of the Siraha DEO.