Employees who have got the
job on the basis of fake caste certificates are to be sacked from the
government service, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday.
In order to discourage unscrupulous activities, state governments and
union territories have been asked to initiate disciplinary proceedings
against the errant officers who default in timely verification of caste
certificates or issue false certificates, he said.
The central government had in 2010 undertaken an exercise to collect
information about appointments secured on the basis of false/fake
certificates.
An instruction had also been issued on June 1, 2017, to all departments
to collect such information and send a consolidated report on this to
personal ministry with details of action taken report thereon.
Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions,
said extant instructions provide that if it is found that a government
servant had furnished false information or produced a false certificate
in order to secure the 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,” he said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
Singh had, in another reply, on March 29 said 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 had 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.
