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Telangana finds 37 lecturers with fake degrees
The Telangana Intermediate Education department has discovered 37 government junior lecturers submitted fake educational certificates when their jobs were regularised in 2023. The department re-examined certificates of about 360 contract lecturers and…
The Story in Brief
The Telangana Intermediate Education department has discovered 37 government junior lecturers submitted fake educational certificates when their jobs were regularised in 2023. The department re-examined certificates of about 360 contract lecturers and found that post-graduate and BTech degrees were not issued by the universities named. Show-cause notices have been sent, and the lecturers face disciplinary action plus criminal charges for forgery and cheating under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
This is not the first such case: 20 lecturers were earlier dismissed for fake certificates, and another 20 were terminated during the regularisation process itself. The Students' Federation of India has demanded a full inquiry into how the certificates were verified during recruitment and called for digital verification of qualifications from out-of-state universities.
The Indian Opinion
The BRS government regularised contract lecturers in bulk; the Congress now finds 37 fakes. Before pointing fingers, recall that 20 were dismissed in an earlier round too. This is a systemic failure that spans regimes: Telangana's education department hired and regularised staff for years without verifying documents. The SFI's call for digital verification is sensible, but the real test is whether the government will prosecute the guilty lecturers publicly, and explain how the initial verification missed them.
Sources (2): telanganatoday.com, thehindu.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
