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| Shankar Chaudhary issued a clarification later saying he had deliberately misspelt the word ‘Elephant’ to test if the students could catch it (video below) |
June 17, 2016, NewsCrunch
A powerful Gujarat Minister Shankar Chaudhary taught bad English to students in his constituency by misspelling Elephant.
He wrote Elephent on the black board and as an aghast teacher looked on helplessly, Shankar Chaudhary made students spell the word aloud following his wrong lead.
The incident took place at a government school in Deesa on Thursday and was recorded by the media cameras.
The minister was visiting the school as part of a government programme Shala Praveshotsav to improve the quality of teaching and check dropouts at government schools.
Shankar Chaudhary issued a clarification later saying he had deliberately misspelt the word ‘Elephant’ to test if the students could catch it. He said he also spelt ‘Deesa’ as ‘Disa’ to check if students could spot the mistake.
Education has been a source of controversy for Shankar Chaudhary, who has been accused of holding a fake MBA degree.
He allegedly passed his higher secondary (HSC) exam in 2011 and got an MBA the very next year from Vadodara based National Institute of Management (NIM), which also has been accused of selling fake degree certificates.
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E for Elephent: Gujarat Minister Shankar Chaudhary spells it wrong in classroom (video)
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