Some Angadwadi workers in Bijnore reportedly got jobs through forged certificates. This sensational fact has been revealed during enquiry under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and now Information Commissioner, Hafiz Usman, had ordered a high level departmental probe into the matter and also directed to terminate one of the workers, who had been already held guilty of submitting fake mark-sheet.
Talking to The Pioneer here on Friday, Usman said that one social activist, Kamaldeep, had learnt that some angadwadi workers at Najibabad thesil of Bijnore, had got jobs on basis of forged documents. He claimed that the activist sought detail in this regard from the officers concerned in Bijnore but he failed to get any success even after he submitted many reminders. Usman said that finally the complainant contacted him and informed him that how the syndicate has been active to make fast buck and facilitating candidates to get government job as Anganwadi workers on basis of fake mark-sheets in Bijnore.
Usman claimed that he summoned the District Programme Officer of Bijnore and District Social Welfare Officer and directed them to make primarily investigation and submit a report on basis of complaint filed by Kamaldeep. Usman said that he was shocked when the investigation pointed that one lakshmi Sharma, posted as Assadullahpur Angadwadi Centre in Najibabad, had got job two years back after submitting forged educational certificates.
The probe pointed that lakshmi had submitted high school and intermediate certificates of Mahirishi Dayanand Gurukul Adarsh Higher Secondary School, in Hareti locality of Purkazi in Muzaffarnagar. The college was shown affiliated to Gurukul Vidyalya in Vrindawan. However, the officers engaged in probe were shocked when they found that neither any school in the above name was running in Purkazi in Muzaffarnagar, nor any college was affiliated in the above name from Gurukul Vidyalya in Vrindawan. Usman said that on basis of the findings, he now get the lady terminated from the department. Besides, he ordered to constitute a high level departmental enquiry so that further proceeding could be made in the matter not only against Sharma, but if anyone other candidate was also selected on basis of forged documents. He said that action will be also taken against the officials who confirmed the job without verifying the documents.