A Kendriya Vidyalaya teacher from West Bengal, recently posted in Bihar, has been suspended for making derogatory remarks about the state’s people and civic sense in a viral video.
PATNA: A woman teacher belonging to Darjeeling in West Bengal and recently posted at the Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jehanabad district has been suspended for making “derogatory” remarks against the state and its people’s civic sense. The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) took the decision as a video purportedly of the teacher, identified as Deepali, went viral on social media. “As per provisions of rule 10 of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, Deepali, the primary teacher on probation, posted at KVS (Jehanabad), is suspended with immediate effect. She will report to KVS, Mashrakh, in Saran district,” the KVS regional office in Patna stated in a statement issued on Tuesday. Samastipur MP Shambhavi Choudhary, who had taken up the issue with the KVS, on Wednesday thanked it for suspending Deepali for her remarks against Bihar and its people. In the video, the teacher is angry over her posting in Bihar and can be heard saying, “I will always remember my first posting … Kendriya Vidyalaya has many regions, Though people don’t like Kolkata region, but I was ready for that even. I am ready to go places like Kolkata, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh or even Ladakh where no one wants to go, but not Bihar.” She did not stop there and allegedly said, “The ground reality is that people of Bihar have zero civic sense… India is a developing country because of Bihar. The day we remove Bihar, India will be a developed country.” She, however, deleted the video after it went viral.
