The Higher Education Department has cancelled the admission of 28 students of the Bhadrak Autonomous College for submitting fake Divyang certificates.
The Deputy Director of the department has also written a letter in this regard to the Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC).
“I am directed to inform you for cancelling the admission of 28 students of Bhadrak Autonomous College who had taken admission by producing fake PwD certificates at the time of admission for the sessions 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22,” the letter stated.
The department further directed the OCAC to cancel the admission of those students and update the same in the SAMS portal.
As per the notification, admission o two students from Arts stream for 2019-20 academic year has been cancelled. Besides, admission of nine students from Arts and Science stream for 2020-21 academic year has also been scrapped.
Besides, the department has annulled the admission of as many as 17 students from Arts, Commerce and Science streams for the current academic year.