Employees who got jobs using forged scheduledor backward caste certificates will be dismissed, the Centre has said.
All central government departments have beenasked to collect details about such appointments from the various organisationsunder them.
The move assumes significance as over 1,800appointments, a majority of them in financial sectors like public sector banksand insurance companies, were allegedly secured through fake castecertificates, official data reveals.
According to existing norms, if it is found that a government servant had furnished false information or produced a falsecertificate in order to secure appointment he should not be retained in
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"Thus when an appointing authority comesto know that an employee had submitted a false/fake caste certificate, it hasto 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 fromall departments about appointments made on the basis of fake or false castecertificates 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 thecandidates got/alleged to have got appointment against vacancies reserved forScheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes on the basis of false/fakecaste certificate and send a consolidated report in this regard," the directive said.
Ministerof 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:-The Economic
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