LUCKNOW, May 24 -- Some 20 assistant teachers appointed in the different government primary schools in Kushinagar district were dismissed from service for submitting fake documents while seeking a job, an official said here on Friday. They were appointed under the Assistant Teacher Recruitment Examination (ATRE) as a part of recruitment of 69,000 teachers' recruitment. Confirming the news, director-general, school education, Kanchan Verma, said, "Yes, the services of 20 assistant teachers of government schools in Kushinagar district were terminated for submitting fake documents." Investigations revealed discrepancies in the teachers' qualifications, district Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA), Ram Jiyawan Maurya, said. The matter came to light during document verification of the teachers. It came to light that several teachers had tinkered with their academic records. When documents of all the candidates were assessed, 20 teachers were found guilty of submitting fake documents. A thorough probe has been ordered. Verma said that the process of document verification is on and if any other teacher in any district is found to be guilty, they too will be dismissed from service. "These teachers were appointed under the 69,000 assistant teachers' recruitment examination, the post of which was notified on December 1, 2018," BSA Kushinagar said. Earlier, in a similar incident in Ballia, five such teachers posted in government-run primary schools were dismissed from service after an investigation revealed that they did not have the required educational qualifications at the time of appointment. In the past, in a separate incident, the court hearing the case had made strong observations: "If a prospective teacher cannot even correctly fill up the simple online application form for their employment, it is obvious what he is going to teach if appointed. Such incompetent persons should not be allowed to play with the future of the next generation." The court had then observed that errors "committed by the candidates cannot be said to be human in nature. The petitioners should have read the instructions that were issued time and again and should have correctly filled the entries relating to the marks obtained by them in their previous examinations. The contention that this was an error committed by the Computer Operator cannot simply be accepted. "If the courts were to accept such a plea of the petitioners, then this would result in a situation where the petitioners would get the benefit of a wrong. If the wrong claim went unnoticed and if noticed, the petitioners could always turn around and claim that this was a result of a human error," the order read. The court was of the opinion that the error/errors committed by the petitioners are neither minor nor are human error/errors. "In view of the facts narrated above as well as the law laid down by the different division bench of this Court from time to time as well as by the Apex Court, no relief could be granted to the petitioners."...