Management quota scam unearthed in tech admissions
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Hyderabad: Another fake certificates scam is unfolding in the management quota admissions to engineering colleges in Telangana State and Andhra Pradesh. Students with fake Class XII certificates from non-existent Boards, from Boards “approved by the Planning Commission” and from fake school education Boards in Bangladesh and Nepal are also found to be admitted in colleges. Hundreds of such fake certificates have been identified so far in random checks and the process is still going on.
Officials from the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education are randomly verifying certificates as part of the ratification process of the management quota admissions. Last year’s management quota admissions are already under the scanner.
The ratification process of admissions under the management quota is now being taken up by the APSCHE for both states and officials have come across some brazen violations.
Only Class XII certificates issued by the member Boards of the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) are recognised as equivalent to the Andhra Pradesh or Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education for admissions in the two states.
While verifying documents, officials found certificates from Boards such as State Board of School and Technical Education, headquartered in Bilaspur of Chhattisgarh. Such a Board does not exist. And even if such a board exists, it is not a member Board of the COBSE.
“Many students have submitted fake certificates issued by this Board. Some of them have even submitted equivalency certificates purportedly issued by the AP Intermediate Board. When the Bilaspur Board doesn’t exist, or is not a member of the COBSE, how can the Intermediate Board issue equivalency certificates?” a senior APSCHE official asked.
Another fake certificate that officials found claimed to be approved by the Planning Commission and even claimed to have an ISO certification. “Why in the world would the Planning Commission approve a Class XII Board? It is clearly fake,” the official said.
Several students have even attached Class XII certificates from Boards in Bangladesh and Nepal. “Some of the certificates are issued by existent Boards of other states, but sometimes in the mark-sheet the individual marks don’t add up to the total marks tally. That is a clear red flag,” another official said.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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