Centre to curb fake certificates

New Delhi, June 15: A warning call from the center, Employees who got jobs using forged scheduled or backward caste certificates will be dismissed, the Centre has said here on Thursday.

All central government departments have been asked to collect details about such appointments from the various organizations under them.

An official data reveals that The move assumes significance as over 1,800 appointments, a majority of them in financial sectors like public sector banks and insurance companies, were allegedly secured through fake caste certificates

According to existing norms, 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," the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said in a recently issued directive.