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Fake certificates caught among 37 Telangana junior lecturers
The Telangana Intermediate Education department has found fake educational certificates submitted by 37 government junior lecturers during a 2023 job regularisation process. After verifying with universities, show-cause notices have been issued, and…
The Story in Brief
The Telangana Intermediate Education department has found fake educational certificates submitted by 37 government junior lecturers during a 2023 job regularisation process. After verifying with universities, show-cause notices have been issued, and disciplinary and criminal action under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is likely.
The department re-examined certificates of nearly 360 lecturers. Earlier, 20 lecturers with fake certificates were dismissed, and 20 more were terminated during regularisation. A woman lecturer in Hyderabad was also recently dismissed. Contract lecturers were appointed during Congress and TDP governments in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, and the previous BRS government regularised them. Complaints led to multiple verification rounds.
The Indian Opinion
The fake certificate scandal exposes lapses in Telangana's junior lecturer regularisation, but the department's proactive verification and dismissals deserve credit. Critics blaming the previous BRS government exclusively ignore that contract appointments began under Congress and TDP. The real test is whether the department will now audit regularisations in other departments and prosecute the certifiers, not just the lecturers.
Source: telanganatoday.com
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