Chief Minister of Punjab has recently tweeted on his twitterhandle that it has come to his notice that many relatives of politicians andinfluential people are getting seats in government jobs based on fake degreecertificates. He also assured the people of Punjab that he will take an action againstit as soon as possible.
From past many years Punjab’s youth is facing problemsrelated to unemployment. A lot of capable youngsters who would have been anasset to the state, moved to overseas because of lack of job opportunities inPunjab. Not only this many young adults due to the same problem have fallen onthe wrong path like drugs, violence, etc. In most of the government jobs relatedto education, police, electricity and corporation, more than half of the totalpercentage of employees are those who have received the jobs with the help oftheir connections with influential people, politicians or bureaucrats.
Few days ago, a Deputy General Manager who was working onthis post from last 21 years was removed from his chair by the AAP governmentas he did not have the required qualifications for the job.
PunjabMining Minister Harjot Bains also stated that the Congress government has recruited itself and therelatives of its employees. Statements like these have raised manyfingers on the working of political parties that were in power from last manyyears. Sources have also revealed that investigation related to thiscase is going on as names of relatives of many politicians and bureaucrats havecome up in the list of people who are involved in this scam.
The CM has also assured that after the removal of people who aredoing jobs on fake degree, he will give chance to the unemployed youth who arecapable enough for the jobs.
Now, only time will tell that whether any action will betaken against those who have been employed on the basis of fake degrees or willthis just prove to be a political stunt.