Telangana: 9 junior lecturers sacked for fake certificates

certificates of nearly 100 other junior lecturers are also under the scanner of the Commissionerate of Intermediate Education.

Hyderabad: In a shocking revelation that has come to the fore, about nine junior lecturers, working in the government junior colleges (GJCs), have been sacked after it was found that they had submitted fake certificates in a bid to regularise their jobs. Meanwhile, certificates of nearly 100 other junior lecturers are also under the scanner of the Commissionerate of Intermediate Education.

The situation is particularly alarming given one of the sacked lecturers reportedly produced a fake SSC certificate. According to official sources, in most cases, postgraduate certificates are fake.

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The sackings are part of broader scrutiny into the authenticity of the academic qualification submitted by the contract junior lecturers who have served in the government junior colleges for the last 15-20 years.

Contract junior lecturers were engaged way back in the 2000s to fill vacant positions. The appointments were based on the examination, followed by academic records security. The RJDIE office, responsible for scrutinising the academic records of candidates, failed to detect these fake certificates despite their long-standing service.

Last year, the State government issued orders regularising services of 3,093 junior lecturers, subject to the condition that educational qualifications, age, local status etc., were genuine.

During certificates scrutiny, fake certificates issue came to the fore, prompting the Commissionerate to cross-verify the academic credentials of nearly another 100 junior lecturers with their respective universities. This scrutiny raised the possibility that more instances of fraudulent certificates may be uncovered.

“If certificates of all regularised junior lecturers are scrutinised thoroughly, we are expecting at least 100 to have produced fake certificates,” said a senior official.

According to the senior official, most certificates produced by the candidates were from Kakatiya University and Osmania University. “We have written to the universities seeking the genuineness of the certificates. But there is a tardy response, which is delaying the process,” the official added.