The Tale of a Teacher

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:21:38 +0200

He is a muslim with a fashionable beard on his Islamic face but his hands did not tremble while accepting huge salary every month for last 25 years against which he taught not even for a single period, a single student

A teacher is regarded as the architect of a society. The qualitative nature of a society, the value system of a society and the behavior of the members of the society is solely the result of the kind and character of the people who are concerned with imparting to the children the convictions, the principles and practices which the society is expected to pursue. The character of a teacher has to be such as to influence the tiny minds of the students for the better. Would you believe that our Education Department has a person on its payroll who has never taken a class of students for the last twenty five years and yet he is getting monthly salary, increments, arrears and even the time bound promotions as per the Civil Service Rules of the state without a fail.

No; he is not an unqualified teacher to disable him from taking a class but he is sufficiently and genuinely qualified. He has post graduate degree to his credit. Then why hasn’t he taken any class during these twenty five years? Was he not given the opportunity to perform what he was appointed for? or he was given some administrative task of the Department? No; none of these is a reason.

Infact, the teacher had a small family business at the time he joined the department which he was engaged with at the time of appointment as teacher. But he did not disassociate with the said business but continued it and not only continued it but continued it in a big way giving it a modern touch by undergoing various refresher courses in the field. Soon he achieved his business goals and his business began to flourish like anything. He then started some other businesses too where he also made big money. He now is a wealthy man and a successful businessman and the people know him as nothing but a businessman. There is no person around who can believe that he is a teacher too. Nobody has ever seen him in an official dress, going to or coming from a school where he has been posted during these 25 years. No student of an institution where he was posted recognizes him as his teacher. He has always been seen in or around the business 24/7.

How can it be possible that a man has not attended his duties for twenty five years except for collecting salary and may be on an inspection day etc. and there is no cry around? It may sound strange elsewhere but in our state of J&K, it is not perplexing. It is understood, the teacher would give 25% of his salary to the concerned controlling officers for keeping his attendance, leave and other service records up to date and take only 75% to home with an eye on the promotions, increase in salaries and finally the terminal benefits running into lakhs particularly the life long pension.

There is another aspect of the story. The man, who at one time did not have something to wear, does not hesitate to spend lakhs of rupees on the social functions inviting the society’s nobles to these functions to authenticate his credentials as a wealthy and influential man and substantiating that he belongs to the creamy layer of the society to command respect from the poor and honest neighborhood.

He definitely has engineered his life and that of his children but what about the poorest of poor students of government schools, who because of their poverty can not afford public school education, who have longed to see their teacher so that they might benefit from his knowledge which he was paid for during all these twenty five years?

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ICICI BANK-a phishing activity hub

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:09:50 +0100

For last few months, people are getting email messages from so called Product Promotion Teams etc. informing them that they have won a prize, donation lottery or an award of huge foreign currency and require them to contact so and so person for formalities. The formalities include nothing but filling up of a form for submitting the particulars of the so called winner. After he fills up the form and submits it via email, he is then approached by a courier company or a foreign bank notifying him that they are in possession of a parcel in his favor containing the winning cheque and the related certificates and documents which they have been entrusted to deliver to the winner. But before delivering they demand courier charges, tax levies or any other charge like premium account opening charges in the bank which has received the winning funds on behalf of the winner.

Lured by the huge sum of winnings in foreign currency, the winner readily accepts the offer and sends money to them. Though the options given to the winner for fund transfer are varied but it boils down to a cash deposit in a specified account in ICICI Bank. After the deposit is made by the winner, he never gets a parcel but messages that his parcel has been stopped by some tax enforcement agency and he is now required to pay so many pounds or dollars to get the parcel released and in this way the parcel never comes to the winner but he is cheated of the money he has deposited in the specified ICICI Bank account.

Some remarkable features of these email messages are that these are crafted in such a fashion that one never gets an impression that these are a part of Phishing activity till the so called winner has deposited the money in their account with ICICI Bank. Secondly if you desire ring them up on the given telephone Nos., they do respond and talk to you. Thirdly, all the accounts which have come to light are that of ICICI Bank. If only one email id can receive particulars of as many as four such fraudulent accounts in ICICI BANK how many of such accounts will there be in whole of the ICICI BANK. It is clear that the bank in a race to grab more and more deposits visavis other banks has abused the KYC norms formulated by Reserve Bank of India where under a banker is required to know his customer by asking for so many details that there is no scope for the bank thereafter to plead that they did not know the customer.

It is high time when the ICICI BANK, THE RBI, THE FINANCE MINISTRY and the police should act hand in glove to nab the perpetrators of this scamming and phishing activity going on around the world to prevent the innocent people from being defrauded.

Some important names, links, telephone Nos. are as under:

Tom Ivan tele; 44 703 195 6105 email id tomivan_awardclaims@yahoo.co.uk

Wallis Mavin (GM) European Courier Service email id: ecourier_safedeliver@yahoo.dk tele 44 704 571 8073

Inland Tax Revenue Board; email id; Uk_inland_enforcement@yahoo.co.uk

Khan Nargis Amjad ICICI BANK A/c No. 026301505367

Kalpana Enterprises, ICICI BANK, J R Road, MUMBAI Branch A/c No. 037705000746

Reshma Rafique Sheikh ICICI BANK A/c No. 026301508885

Lizzie N Shetty, ICICI BANK A/c No. 002801019662

Scott Phillips, 2-Bevan Avenue, Conwy LL285AF, United Kingdom

Mr. Robert Carlson tele; 44 70457 34759 email id; barclaysbankonlinetransferunit@dorsetgroup_plc.com

Van Freek email id: mrvanfreek_01@yahoo.de

David Adams Lottery Manager, PEUGEOT AUTOMOBILES LOTTERY

Paul Wilson P A Headquarters email id: claims_agent230@yahoo.com.hk

Dean Christopher, Dispatch Officer, Transglobal Express Tele 447045710577

Giss Peterson email id: fiduciary_agentmrgisspeterson@yahoo.com.hk

Michael Peters email id: irishaward0007@yahoo.com Tele: 44 7045706497

Hayford Weigel fiduciary agent email id: agent_hayford6000@yahoo.co.uk
Tele: 44 704 570 9391/ 44 704 570 8111

Camillo Antonelli email id:camilloantonelli01@pisem.net tele: 44 702 408 0231
Paul Cody The Finance Operations Manager Post Bank PLC UK tele : 44 703 194 5221 email id: fundstransfer@postbonline.net

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