Imphal, Aug 12: Despite the hue and cry for quality education in the state, a wife of an MLA who is serving as a school teacher has been withdrawing salary without attending the school throughout the year.
Exact date of when she started attending the school could not be established at the moment as the head master of the school fear disciplinary action for exposing the truth on how the wife of the MLA has been abstaining from the school.
A thorough investigation by some volunteers of a specific student body however found out that the MLA’s wife has been abstaining from duty since her husband got elected as the member of the state Assembly in the last election. The student volunteers also found out that the MLA’s wife did come to the school once in a blue moon only to sign attendance for at least one or two months. And as a reward she reportedly sanctioned some money to help the school running.
The extraordinary school teacher is identified as Paonam Ongbi Shaman Devi wife of MLA Paonam Brojen who represents Wangjing Assembly Constituency. The school that she was supposed to attend regularly as she had been posted as teacher is Wangbal Junior Higher.
In a telephonic conversation, a school teacher told the student body that she was a kind lady, who often gave around rupees 4000 every month for transportation of the school children. But one thing for sure is that this wife of the MLA has been drawing the salary without teaching and attending the school since her husband became the MLA.