Employees who have
got job on the basis of fake caste certificates are to be sacked from
the government service, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday.
In
order to discourage unscrupulous activities, state governments and
union territories have been asked to initiate disciplinary proceedings
against the errant officers who default in timely verification of caste
certificates or issue false certificates, he said.
The central
government had in 2010 undertaken an exercise to collect information
about appointments secured on the basis of false/fake certificates.
An
instruction had also been issued on June 1, 2017 to all departments to
collect such information and send consolidated report on this to
personnel ministry with details of action taken report thereon.
Singh,
Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, said
extant instructions provide that 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,” he said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
Singh
had, in another reply, on March 29 said 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 had 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.hindustantimes.co
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