Compilation of information about appointments made on the basis of fake/ false caste certificates

MOST IMMEDIATE.

No.36017/2/2009-Estt. (Res.)

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

Department of Personnel and Training

North Block

New Delhi-I 10001

Dated the 28'h January, 2010.

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:- Compilation of information about appointments made on the basis of fake/ false caste certificates- Recommendation of the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of SCI ST.

The undersigned is directed to say that the Parliamentary Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in its Twenty-ninth Report (14th Lok Sabha) have recommended that the Department of Personnel and Training should collect information regularly from all Ministries/Departments/PSUs/ Banks/ Autonomous Bodies/ States/ UTs in regard to cases offalse caste certificates. The recommendation is reproduced below:

" ............D OP&T should interalia obtain information from all Ministries/ Departments, PSUs, banks, autonomous bodies and States/ UTs in regard to cases of false caste certificates regularly with a view to monitoring their progress and disposal, so that necessary plan of action could be taken to tackle the
problem for good."

2. , This Department's O.M. No.1 1012/1/91-Estt. (A) dated 19.5.1993 provides that 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. All fhe Ministries/ Departments are requested to collect information from all organisation under their administrative control about the cases where the candidates got/ alleged to have got appointment against vacancies reserved for SCs, STs and OBCs on the the basis of false/ fake caste certificate and send a consolidated report in this regard in the enclosed proforma to this Department latest by 31.03.2010.

(K.G. Verma)
Director
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