MANSEHRA: Torghar district education officer Zulfiqarul Mulk has sacked 17 teachers for filing bogus documents.

“I have terminated 17 teachers from service after finding out that they’d secured jobs on fake domiciles and certificates,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

The DEO said his department was working on the option of taking legal action against those teachers.

He said the head teacher of the Government Primary School Mushkot had been demoted after he was found involved in the embezzlement of parent-teacher council funds.

“I recovered the embezzled amount totaling Rs132,000 from the head teacher before ordering his demotion,” he said.

DEO says legal action also under consideration

Mr. Mulk said inquiries into the alleged embezzlement of around Rs300,000 such funds at three more schools were underway and if corruption charges proved right, the relevant headmasters would be demoted after recovery of the spoils.

He said he had terminated the services of two teachers over the prolonged absence from duty.

The DEO said he would continue taking all necessary steps for the promotion of education in the districts.

LAND ACQUISITION ORDERED: Mansehra deputy commissioner Iqbal Hussain on Tuesday asked tehsil nazim Khurram Khan to acquire land to establish graveyards in four urban union councils of the city.

The directives were issued during a meeting chaired by the DC and attended by district nazim Sardar Said Ghulam, tehsil nazim Khurram Khan and representatives of the Tehsil Municipal Administration and relevant departments here.

The DC said the federal government released Rs200 million for the establishment of graveyards of late in light of the prime minister’s announcement and therefore, the TMA should ensure the early acquisition of land for the purpose.

He said the tehsil nazim would finalise all legal formalities on the project, including land acquisition.

Later in the day, the tehsil nazim formed a committee to finalise modalities for land acquisition under his supervision.

He told reporters here that the city’s existing graveyards didn’t have more space for burials.

The nazim said Rs50 million would be spent on graveyards each and that the committee consisting of him, local MPA Sardar Zahoor, PML-N district president Zafar Mehmood, district councillors Akmal Khan Swati and Mohammad Ihtesham and tehsil councillors Raja Ayaz and Mian Abrar would identify the land for them.

He said the committee would also take local residents into confidence about land acquisition.

“The Tehsil Municipal Administration will carry out the entire exercise. Later, the deputy commissioner will impose Section 4 of the Land Actuation Act to get hold of land for the establishment of graveyards,” he said.

Published in Dawn September 21st, 2016