Chairman of 3 Adarsh schools booked for fraud

Faridkot, December 3

The chairman of the management committee of three Government Adarsh Schools in Faridkot and Moga districts has been booked for allegedly misappropriating funds received from the School Education Department for disbursing salaries to teachers.

The police found chairman Narinder Singh Randhawa of the Sukh Sagar Welfare Association and his daughter Harsimran Kaur, principal at one of these schools, guilty of cheating. The department had also found Randhawa guilty of making fake enrollment of 22 teachers in these schools. It is alleged that six teachers, each at Adarsh School Middumann and Pacca villages and 10 teachers enrolled at Adarsh School, Ransingh Kalan, never visited the schools but their salaries were being drawn by the chairman. — OC