A government school teacher, posted in Rajasthan’s Baran district, has been suspended for disrespecting Goddess Saraswati and hurting religious sentiments, officials on Saturday said.
Primary school teacher Hemlata Bairwa was suspended on Friday following an order by Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar, they said.
“Some people give weightage to themselves so much, their ‘chaal’ (working style) is not yet gone and they ask what is the contribution of Goddess Saraswati in school, whoever has said so in this area, I suspend him/her,” Dilawar had said addressing a public gathering during his tour in Kishanganj area in Baran district on Thursday.
A day after the minister’s announcement in public, the district education (elementary) officer of Baran on Friday issued an order for the suspension of Prabodhak level 1 teacher, Hemlata Bairwa, posted at a government primary school at Lakdai village in the Kishanganj area in Baran district given under-consideration of disciplinary action against her.
However, the official at the Baran district education department claimed the suspension order was issued after an initial inquiry into hurting and provoking religious sentiments against Bairwa was over.
In an initial inquiry into controversy over the placement of Goddess Saraswati’s picture on stage at the Republic Day function in the government primary school at Lakadia in the Kishanganj area, the teacher was found responsible for hurting and provoking religious sentiments of local people and on basis of the same, order for her suspension was issued on Friday, Baran district education (elementary) officer Piyush Kumar Sharma told.
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