Delhi University Plans Use Of Forensic Experts To Curb Menace Of Fake Documents During Admissions
Delhi University (DU) is considering a proposal which requires affiliated colleges to employ the services of forensic experts to curb the menace of admissions using fraudulent documents and papers, reports Indian Express (IE).
“There has been no formal decision or discussion on this issue. A meeting with college principals will be convened to discuss the possibilities and find out how many will be willing to go through with this,” an official was quoted as saying.
Forensic services have already been in use in some colleges like Ramjas, Sri Venkateswara and Dyal Singh in the last few years.
Refuses To Go Away
In 2015 authorities busted a fake admission racket and it was alleged that over a hundred fake admissions took place in 10 DU colleges including Hindu college, Kirori Mal college and Ram Lal Anand college.
However, the problem continued to persist and in January 2018, DU administration opened an investigation into a major admission scam during the 2017-18 session. Officials claimed that students with fake certificates and those who could not clear the cut-off were admitted into certain colleges.
“This is a major issue brought up by applicants every year. In a lot of cases, the applicant is dependent on a third party to fill out their form – very often, this is a cyber cafe employee. They should not have to suffer for a casual mistake. We will try to rectify this by developing a portal for online corrections, which can be permitted until the cut-off lists are published,” said Rajeev Gupta, Dean, Students’ Welfare.