In a crackdown on appointments using forged scheduled or backward
caste certificates, all central government departments have been asked
to collect details from the organisations under them and initiate
action.
Employees who got jobs through such fake or forged caste
certificates should be removed or dismissed in accordance with relevant
service rules, the Centre has said.
The move assumes significance
as over 1,800 appointments, a majority of them in financial sectors like
public sector banks and insurance companies, were allegedly secured
through fake caste certificates, official data reveals.
According
to existing norms, if it is found that a government servant had
furnished false information or produced a false certificate in order to
secure appointment he should not be retained in service.
"Thus
when an appointing authority comes to know that an employee had
submitted a false/fake caste certificate, it has to initiate action to
remove or dismiss such an employee from service as per the provisions of
relevant service rules," the Department of Personnel and Training
(DoPT) said in a recently issued directive.
It has been decided to
collect information from all departments about appointments made on the
basis of fake or false caste certificates and the follow up action
taken thereon, it said.
"Therefore, all the ministries/departments
are requested to collect information from all organisations under their
administrative control about the cases where the candidates got/alleged
to have got appointment against vacancies reserved for Scheduled
Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes on the basis of
false/fake caste certificate and send a consolidated report in this
regard," the directive said.
Minister of State for Personnel
Jitendra Singh had said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on March 29
that 1,832 appointments were allegedly secured on the basis of fake
caste certificates. Of these, 276 had resulted in suspension or removal,
521 were entangled in litigations and disciplinary proceedings were
pending in the remaining 1,035 cases, he said.
A total of 1,296 cases
of jobs secured allegedly through fake caste certificates were under
the Department of Financial Services. As many as 157 such cases were in
State Bank of India, 135 in Central Bank of India, 112 in Indian
Overseas Bank, 103 in Syndicate Bank, and 41 each in New India Assurance
and United India Assurance.
Source : http://www.moneycontrol.com/
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