Patna:
A authorities instructor in Bihar utilized for maternity depart, regardless of being a male, and after it obtained sanctioned, loved a week-long vacation.
The weird anomaly got here to mild when customers of a portal, arrange for presidency lecturers making use of for depart on-line, saved a screenshot and posted it on social media.
Nevertheless, authorities declare it was a “technical error” which might be set proper and there was nothing to scent a rat.
“It’s a case of wrongful entry within the depart utility format. The error is technical and will probably be rectified,” mentioned Archana Kumari, the training officer in command of Mahua block in Vaishali district, the place the instructor, Jitendra Kumar Singh, is posted.
She agreed that maternity leaves had been granted solely to girls, however identified that “even males get ‘pitritva avakash’ (paternity depart) to take care of their newborns”.
“We are going to discover out the small print of this occasion which has been delivered to our discover,” she mentioned.
“Some lecturers have complained of their earned leaves being deducted although that they had utilized for informal leaves,” she added.
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