Suspended principal cries foul as RTI plea says CM’s wife Sunita Rawat, also a teacher, is posted in Dehradun since 1996.
New Delhi: An RTI plea has revealed that Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat’s wife, a government school teacher, has not been transferred for the past 22 years.
The information comes in the wake of the suspension of a school principal, Uttara Bahuguna, on the CM’s order for seeking a transfer.
“I never knew that the CM’s wife was a teacher. It is convenient that teachers like us must suffer in exile, while the CM keeps his wife close to home. This new information has made everything crystal clear,” she said.
In response to the RTI plea filed by an activist, Praveen Sharma, the Uttarakhand education department said Sunita Rawat has been posted in Dehradun’s Ajabpur Kalan since 1996. She received a promotion in 2008.
She was posted to Dehradun barely four years after being appointed a teacher in a remote location in Garwhal.
Bahuguna had attended the CM’s Janata Darbar Thursday hoping to make a request for her transfer from remote areas in Uttarkashi. Widowed since 2015, she can be seen asking for transfer to be closer to her children.
The video also shows CM Rawat ordering the police to take her into custody and suspend her for her behavior at the Janata Darbar.
Bahuguna has been working since 1993 and was promoted as a principal in 2003. “Caught in this web of corruption, I’m the one who has suffered for the last 25 years. All I want is to be close to my children,” she told ThePrint Friday.
“It is only poor people like us who suffer. I needed this job to keep my house running since my husband died. I have barely three years left for my retirement,” Bahuguna said.
She has also threatened that she will move the court if her case is not reviewed properly.
Meanwhile, the state school education secretary Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh tweeted, “More than 58 people are posted in remote areas for longer duration than her. Her number is only 59th. The transfer is done on turn-wise.”
Shame on the Uttarakhand CM for being so arrogant towards the 57 yr old widow. How come CM’s wife enjoying Dehradun posting from the last 22 yrs ?