Bihar school spends on sanitary napkins for boys, inquiry ordered

PATNA: In a bizarre case, several boys of a government school in Saran district were given the benefits of sanitary napkin and dress scheme (poshak yojana) meant for girl students in the state. The matter is related to Halkori Sah High School, a co-ed government school in Manjhi block of the district.
The irregularities in funds utilisation were detected by the new headmaster, Rais-ul-Ehrar Khan, who informed the district magistrate about the discrepancies in the last three financial statement records of the school.
Saran district education officer (DEO) Ajay Kumar Singh told this newspaper on Saturday that the principal wrote a letter to the DM stating that several boys of the school were allotted funds for the sanitary napkin and dress scheme before 2019. “A two-member committee comprising district programme officer Rajan Kumar Giri and DPO (establishment) Sunil Kumar Gupta has been formed to investigate the matter and submit the findings within a week,” he said.