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Promotion on fake degrees: 2 principals demoted
3/19/2024 10:38:50 PM

Early Times Report

Jammu, Mar 19: Although two Principals in the School Education Department have been demoted as teachers after post-graduation degrees were found fake, many more are likely to face the same action because the process to reverify correspondence degrees is going on.
Sources said that post graduate degrees procured by teachers through correspondence from some unknown degrees would be reverified to check authenticity.
Important to mention here that the Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department has taken action against two Principals who were found to have obtained their positions as acting principal and senior lecturer using fraudulent postgraduate degrees.
Investigations revealed that one of the Principals claimed to have earned a PG degree in Chemistry from Magadh University in 2003, a program that the university did not offer at the time.
Both of them were serving as Principal in Higher Secondary Schools in the Samba and Kathua districts respectively.
Apart from recovery from the day of promotion as incharge lecturers to Principals, both of them have been demoted as teachers and have been instructed to report to the Chief Education Officer of their respective districts. The promotions of these teachers were based on falsified credentials. For instance, o
PG degrees procured by teachers through correspondence from some unknown universities would be reverified to check authenticity.
School Education Department has taken action against two Principals who were found to have obtained their positions after using fraudulent degrees.
One of the Principals claimed to have earned a PG degree in Chemistry from Magadh University in 2003, a program that the university did not offer at the time.
Promotions of these teachers were based on falsified credentials.
e of them was promoted to the role of in-charge lecturer in 2004.
However, when requested to provide original service records and qualification certificates upon being posted at the Government Higher Secondary School in Mansar, she failed to produce legitimate documentation. Consequently, allowances were withheld from 2004 to 2006.
The School Education Department issued an order on March 5 to address this matter. Subsequently, the Directorate of School Education Jammu has directed the Chief Education Officers of Samba and Kathua districts to assign these teachers to teaching positions as per the issued directive.
Last year Crime Branch had produced a chargesheet against eight teachers for producing fake degrees to get higher status in the physical education department, The Education Department has already started a process to reverify degrees produced by teachers to get promotions.
Highly placed sources said that a large number of teachers have produced postgraduate degrees to get promotions. These degrees were procured by these teachers from some mysterious universities.
Sources said that hundreds of teachers have produced post-graduate degrees to get promotions as lecturers. These teachers were promoted on the basis of the degrees procured by them through correspondence mode.
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