Agri staff with fake certificates may have last laugh

Vijayawada | Friday | 17th August, 2018

Summary:

With the students demanding for weeding out of the fake degree holders from the department, the government ordered CID probe into the issue. Surprisingly, not only the committee’s report did not see the light, the government did not initiate any action on the issue till the date. Subsequently, vigilance and enforcement department too had taken up an enquiry.Under pressure from the non-ICAR group, the government appointed a three-men committee to look into the genuinity of the certificates. The officials, who joined the service with degrees secured from the universities that are affiliated to ICAR, have been opposing the promotion of non-ICAR degree holders. Amaravati: In what could kick up a fresh controversy, agriculture department is examining a proposal to regularise all the employees who sneaked into the department with invalid and fake certificates.Sources said that the department has agreed to take up the issue as one-time solution to the long pending trouble..