Bihar blacklists 75 B.Ed institutions
Patna: The Bihar government has blacklisted 75 B.Ed institutions in India and Nepal to check a fake degree racket and irregularities in the teacher recruitment drive for government-run schools, official sources said Tuesday. Bihar Human Resource Development Minister Hari Narayan Singh said the government was forced to blacklist the B.Ed institutions to check irregularities in appointment of school teachers. "It will help government agencies to identify fake degrees," he said. Official sources in the HRD department said the local dailies widely reported that applicants used fake degrees to apply for teachers jobs. Acting on the same, the government found the reports true and identified illegal institutions issuing fake degrees and blacklisted them. Singh said some of the blacklisted institutions belong to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Punjab. The degrees issued by these institutions were neither recognised by the state government nor the