143 teachers found with fake credentials

Action sought over bogus degrees, missing appointment, joining letters

FAISALABAD:

The Faisalabad education department has forwarded cases against 143 teachers found serving on the basis of fake credentials after up to 18 years.

The degrees and appointment letters of some teachers were found to be bogus during verification.

A total of 143 cases were detected in recruitments made in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

The teachers had been receiving salaries on bogus recruitment for 12 to 18 years.

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District Officer (DO) Elementary Education Razia Tabassum sent the cases of teachers with bogus appointment to the anti-corruption department. A large number of fake recruitments were detected in the Faisalabad Education Department.

During the verification, the DO identified a number of female teachers who had been teaching in government schools for up to 18 years on the basis of fake documents.

While checking the record, reportedly, the degrees of some of the teachers turned out to be bogus and the department does not have the record of joining and appointment letters of some others.

During the recruitment in different periods from 2002 to 2008, the women got jobs in the education department with the help of bogus documents.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2020.