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| A YouTube screen grab of Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani |
Staff correspondent, Auguswt 21, 2015, NewsCrunch
A Delhi Public School language teacher, Richa Kumar, who had pointed out two spelling mistakes in an official letter sent by HRD Minister Smriti Irani has deleted her Facebook post.
The post, which had been made on August 11, had gone viral after it was shared by over 800 people.
On Friday, after a few media outlets started reporting on Richa Kumar’s post, Smriti Irani’s spelling mistakes blew up into a controversy prompting her to order a probe.
Smriti Irani had recently sent a letter to school teachers across the country, congratulating them on the performance of their students.
The words "minister" and "sansadhan (resources)" were spelt incorrectly in the letterhead.
Catching the spelling mistakes, Richa Kumar responded to them on her Facebook page. In a letter addressed to Smriti Irani, she said mistakes in the official letterhead were an affront to her sensibilities as a Language teacher.
She also attached the photos of the letterhead circling the mistakes in red ink.
Richa Kumar went on to advise Smriti Irani to ensure that the people, who worked for the ministry, were well educated.
It is not clear if the DPS teacher sent the letter to Smriti Irani or just posted it on her Facebook page.
But after the issue blew up on Friday, Richa Kumar seems to have had second thoughts on the advisability of counselling the high and the mighty of the country, and deleted her post.
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| An image of DPS teacher Richa Kumar's FB post |