chandigarh year 2009 was a mixed bag of positives and negatives for the education departmentthe controversial year kicked off with the name of dpi schools cropping up in the job scam principal of gmsss45 being booked for alleged misappropriation of funds by vigilance sleuths and ended with private schools caught in the eye of the stormthe unearthing of the job scam in september proved a major embarrassment for the ut administration with the role of dpi s samwartak singh coming under the scanner for allegedly being in touch with prime accused jollyjolly along with hardev singh was arrested for negotiating a deal with a woman to secure her a job in the education departmentthe matter took a crucial turn when a large number of calls made to jollys phone were traced to samwartaks official telephone linethe issue attained importance as the dpi s claimed to be in touch with jolly over work related to the tourism departmenthowever samwartak managed to get a clean chit following a detailed investigation by the ut policein another embarrassment for the department the principal and faculty of government senior secondary school sector45 was reportedly found guilty of gross financial irregularitiesa complaint was also lodged against school principal alka mehta for overcharging students for school diaries and identity cards the matter was probed by sdm s prerna puri who found the authorities guilty and later suspended the principal and faculty membersmeanwhile st johns school was also mired in controversies following complaints of corporal punishment and porn sites being shown to its studentsthe school was in the centre of a storm when a substitute teacher slapped a classiii student several times for not being able to recall the table of seven during maths class on july 18the agony did not end here as the teacher kept humiliating the child and asked his classmates to laugh at himthe incident was reported on july 22 when parents of the child approached the school authoritiesfollowing this a magisterial probe was conducted by sdm s who visited the school and recorded statements of the victims classmatesthe teacher was later found guilty of slapping the child following which her services were terminatedthe schools name again cropped up in controversy when a pcs officer whose two children studied at the school levelled allegations against the art teacher for showing them porn sites on his laptopa probe was subsequently conducted by district education officer deo the report accused the teacher of polluting the minds of minor studentslater the education department also wrote to the school management to initiate stern action against the teacher concerned for encouraging cyber crime and noncooperation on pretext for being a minority institutionthe year ended with sacred heart school26 coming under the scanner of ut administration for its alleged role for expelling ruchika girhotra after her case was reported to the mediathe ut education department and state transport authorities also failed to initiate the pilot project to start school bus service for children of government schools the departments innovative project