Lok Sabha Question No. 471 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-19
Subject: Fake Caste Certificates
Ministry: PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
Asked by: B. SREERAMULU, ANJU BALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL & TRAINING)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 471

(TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2017)

## FAKE CASTE CERTIFICATES

## 471. SHRI B. SRIRAMULU: SHRIMATI ANJU BALA:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  cases  of  getting  employment  against  reserved  vacancies  on  producing bogus/fake caste certificates in Central Government have been reported;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  of  such  cases  during  the  last  three  years  and  the  current  year, Ministry/Department-wise and State-wise including Karnataka; and
- (c) the  action  taken  by  the  Government  against  such  persons  and  also  against  the responsible officers for the lapses?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

- (a): Yes, Madam.
- (b): The information on such cases is not centrally maintained.

However, the Central Government had undertaken an exercise to collect information about appointments secured on the basis of false/ fake certificates in the year 2010. Recently an  instruction  had  been  issued  on  01.06.2017  to  all  Ministries/  Departments  to  collect information about appointments made on the basis of fake/ false caste certificates and follow up  action  taken  thereon.  The  Ministries/  Departments  have  been  requested  to  collect information from all Organisations under their administrative control about the cases where the candidates got/ alleged to have got appointment against vacancies reserved for Scheduled Cates,  Scheduled  Tribes  and  Other  Backward  Classes  on  the  basis  of  false/  fake  caste certificate  and  send  a  consolidated  report  to  the  Department  of  Personnel  and  Training  by 15.07.2017.

In the response received so far from seven Ministries/ Departments, no such case has been reported.

- (c): The  extant  instructions  provide  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 as per the provisions of relevant Service Rules.

The Government has also requested all the States/ Union Territories from time to time to  streamline  the  process  for  verification  of  claims  of  candidates  belonging  to  Scheduled Castes  (SCs),  Scheduled  Tribes  (STs)  and  Other  Backward  Classes  (OBCs)  and  to  issue instructions to District Magistrates/ District Collectors/ Deputy Commissioners to ensure at their  own  level  the  veracity  of  caste  certificates  so  that  unscrupulous  non-SC/ST/OBC persons  are  prevented  from  securing  jobs  meant  for  SCs/STs/OBCs  by  producing  false certificates.

Further,  in  order  to  discourage  unscrupulous  activities,  State  Governments/  Union Territories have also been requested to consider issue of appropriate instructions for initiating disciplinary proceedings against the errant officers who default in timely verification of caste certificates or who issue false certificates.

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