Bihar: Male teacher gets pregnant! Master Sahab gets maternity leave, know why

Bihar Teacher News: The Bihar Education Department declared male teacher Jitendra Kumar Singh pregnant and granted him maternity leave. The teacher is being ridiculed. Accepting the mistake, the education officer said that it would be corrected soon. Male teachers are also expressing dissatisfaction and making fun of it.

Hajipur/Jamui: In Bihar's Hajipur, the education department granted maternity leave to a male teacher considering him pregnant. This incident took place in Hasanpur Osti High School of Mahua block. BPSC-selected teacher Jitendra Kumar Singh was mistakenly shown as pregnant on the department's e-Shiksha Kosh portal and he was granted maternity leave. This has brought a bad name to the department and there is an atmosphere of laughter and jokes among the teachers. A similar case was

The male teacher got pregnant!

A big mistake of the education department has come to light in a school of Hajipur. Here a male teacher was declared pregnant and given maternity leave. This case is of Hasanpur Osti High School of Mahua block. BPSC teacher Jitendra Kumar Singh was declared pregnant by the department by mistake. This mistake happened on the department's online portal E-Shiksha Kosh. On this portal, Jitendra Kumar Singh's name is shown on maternity leave.

Maternity leave is only for female teachers who are pregnant and about to give birth to a child. But here a male teacher was given this leave, which is very strange. Due to this mistake, the education department is facing a lot of criticism. Also, this has become a topic of laughter among the teachers.

A glitch in e-Shiksha Kosh portal

In this case, Block Education Officer Archana Kumari has accepted the department's mistake. She said that this had happened due to a glitch on the portal. Male teachers are not given this type of leave. This will be rectified soon. This mistake must have happened due to some technical glitch on the portal. The way a male teacher was given the leave meant for women has also caused resentment among teachers. Also, this has become a subject of joke for them.

A teacher of a government school in Sono block had asked for medical leave when he fell ill, and the leave was also granted. However, when the report of the e-Shiksha Kosh portal came, it showed maternity leave instead of medical leave for that male teacher. This e-Shiksha Kosh portal report of the teacher is going viral on social media, and there is a lot of discussion about how a male teacher got maternity leave.

Maternity leave instead of medical leave

A similar case was also seen in Jamui. The e-Shiksha Kosh portal has done wonders by showing maternity leave instead of medical leave to Mohammad Zaheer, a teacher of Sono Block. This case is from 18 November to 28 November. Zaheer had asked for leave due to illness, which was also approved. But maternity leave was mistakenly recorded on the portal. The screenshot of this report is going viral on social media. People are saying different things about it. The question is arising how can a male teacher get maternity leave?

Mohammad Zaheer is a teacher in Upkramit Madhya Vidyalaya Dhodri of Sono block. Due to illness from 18 November to 27 November, he had applied for medical leave to the school in charge The in-charge forwarded the application and sent it to the block education officer. The leave was also approved. But when the report of the e-Shiksha Kosh portal came, Zaheer's leave from 18 to 28 November was recorded as maternity leave. The e-Shiksha Kosh portal is an online system that keeps information related to the attendance and salary of teachers.

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