Wednesday, March 14, 2012

ITI certificates on sale

A certificate scandal has surfaced in the Technical Education department where the fake Industrial Training Institute (ITI) certificates are being issued to the candidates for getting Government jobs.

Such types of fake certificates are mostly being issued from the ITIs of North Kashmir allegedly on huge payments to facilitate them Government jobs.

One of candidates who was not even student of the ITI, Uri managed to figure in the result gazette of 2008 and got a certificate issued from the department.

The result of the State trade test held under State Council for Vocational Training (SCVT) in July 2007 in various ITI's of the State was declared under Notification No. 03 of 2008 dated 12-02-2008 in which two candidates with same name and parentage figured in ITI Uri.

As per the records of the ITI, Uri, a candidate Abdul Khaliq Lone son of Abdul Jamal Lone was undergoing training during session 2005-2006 and was declared successful in the examination gazette under Roll No. Pb19-J\07-2026 securing 524 marks.

Another candidate with same name and parentage, Abdul Khaliq Lone son of Abdul Jamal Lone, figured in the successful candidates with Roll No. Pb19-J\07-2028 securing 519 marks.

As per the attendance register of ITI, Uri only one Abdul Khaliq Lone son of Abdul Jamal Lone was enrolled and underwent training in the ITI, Uri during the session 2005-2006. Another Abdul Khaliq Lone was not even enrolled in 2006-2007 session as per the attendance register of the ITI.

The fraud seems to have been done with active connivance of the officials of the ITI from top to bottom as admission procedure in ITIs includes selection of candidates through selection process, trainings and then examination.

As per the procedure, a list of selected candidates is prepared on the basis on merit and then these candidates are admitted in the ITIs. The selected candidates' then deposit admission fee with the concerned ITIs and the fees is later deposited in the treasury.

As per the guidelines a trainee who attained 80 per cent attendance is allowed to sit in the examination and ` 50 as examinationfee is deposited by each candidate in the treasury and ITI head attested the examination form and on the basis of this Director Technical Education allotted Roll number to a candidate.

The candidate has managed to bypass the entire procedure but got his name in the result gazette. The certificates were issued under No. 004608 and 004610 to both the candidates. Both of them are now Government employees, one on fake certificate and the other on genuine certificate.

Fake ITI certificates are in circulation mostly in North Kashmir and a large number of people have managed to get jobs on these certificates, alleged a group of ITI pass trained youth. The ITI pass outs demand that the certificates should be properly verified with the department before issuing appointment orders to them. The ITI pass outs alleged that large number of people have got fake ITI certificate in North Kashmir for getting Government jobs. Police had even seized around 100 fake ITI certificates from a Srinagar hotel 5 years back but the case was hushed up.

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