BSEB cancels affiliation of 56 more schools, Inter Colleges
Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Tuesday cancelled the affiliation of 56 more schools and Intermediate colleges as part of its drive to weed out corruption and unfair means in examination.
The affiliation of these institutions was suspended after a preliminary investigation into the scam.
With this the tally of such institutions has reached 124. The BSEB had put 212 schools under scanner after the scam was unearthed.
The Board on Tuesday also suspended the affiliation of 21 more schools.
Nineteen of these institutes, whose affiliation has been cancelled, were situated in Gaya districts; 11 each in Saran and Madhubani, five in West Champaran, two each in Patna and Lakhisarai and one each in Nalanda, Buxar, Aurangabad, Arwal, Purnia and Jamui districts.
The Board had on October 18 terminated the affiliation of 68 schools and Inter-Colleges after getting unsatisfactory reply to the show-cause notices served on them. All these institutions were granted affiliation during the tenure of former BSEB chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh, who along with his wife Usha Sinha, former JD(U) MLA, are in jail in the topper scam case.
According to BSEB chairman Anand Kishor the affiliation granted to 13 institutions after 2011 for running any of the Arts, Science and Commerce streams has also been terminated. .
