Salary after retirement !

Statesman News Service

MALDA, May 28: The Malda treasury has stopped the current salary bill of all teachers of the RKM Vivekananda Vidyamandir, a reputed school here, after detecting a gross anomaly in the salary withdrawal process. The treasury officers have detected that the school had withdrawn salary of the teachers, including a retired teacher, Mr DK Sinha, recently. Mr Sinha had retired on 28 February. The Malda treasury officer has sought clarification from school authorities. The Malda RKM chief, Swami Divyananda, issued a show-cause notice against two clerks ~ Anupam Neyogee and Rajib Jha ~ yesterday and instructed them to answer by 30 May. “I have spoken to the Malda DI and decided to pay back the government money to treasury tomorrow,” Divyananda said. He added: “It was a mistake of clerical staff who did not check properly the list of teachers before withdrawing the money. We did not pay the amount to the teacher for the month of March.”Interestingly, the DI office also approved the salary bill and the treasury passed it twice. Sources said the treasury officer-I, Mr G Basak, had called the clerk of the school, Rajiv Jha, to rectify the bill but he did not inform the matter to the Malda RKM authorities.