NEW DELHI: In the wake of Supreme Court recommending stricter procedures for verifying candidate identities for examinations, a recent case has come to light where an alert technical organisation under central govt averted a dozen possible impersonators from joining after they had been selected by a government recruitment agency.
In some cases, major discrepancies were detected in their documents and in several cases photographs of the candidates in the files sent by the recruitment entity did not match with their actual physical appearance.
Officials said the “successful” candidates were selected for appointment as multi-tasking staff (technical). “When their credentials were checked, officials detected discrepancies, such as mismatch of handwriting. A committee was then set up to verify all details and their joining was put on hold till the process was complete,” said a source.
“Subsequently, when we sent communications to authenticate the credentials, none of them turned up. So, the process of joining couldn’t be completed,” added the source.
Exam centres should have CCTV cameras, say officials
As per sources, during first stage of verification, some of the candidates who were confronted with mismatch with photographs in the files came up with strange excuses of how they had long hair and gained weight just before the exam. Their claims were not convincing and there was a possibility that someone else appeared for the candidate in the test.
The organisation has sent the dossiers of the candidates to the recruitment agency for necessary action.
Talking to TOI, senior govt officials said proper checking of details and other credentials of candidates at the time of joining any organisation can prevent people coming to the system using unfair means. “Exam centres should have CCTV cameras & recruitment agencies must use good cameras (at least 6 MP) and click colour photographs for more clarity. Best way to prevent any such fraud is to go for biometric attendance at the time of exam so that their authenticity can be verified when they join any office,” an official said.
In some cases, major discrepancies were detected in their documents and in several cases photographs of the candidates in the files sent by the recruitment entity did not match with their actual physical appearance.
Officials said the “successful” candidates were selected for appointment as multi-tasking staff (technical). “When their credentials were checked, officials detected discrepancies, such as mismatch of handwriting. A committee was then set up to verify all details and their joining was put on hold till the process was complete,” said a source.
“Subsequently, when we sent communications to authenticate the credentials, none of them turned up. So, the process of joining couldn’t be completed,” added the source.
Exam centres should have CCTV cameras, say officials
As per sources, during first stage of verification, some of the candidates who were confronted with mismatch with photographs in the files came up with strange excuses of how they had long hair and gained weight just before the exam. Their claims were not convincing and there was a possibility that someone else appeared for the candidate in the test.
The organisation has sent the dossiers of the candidates to the recruitment agency for necessary action.
Talking to TOI, senior govt officials said proper checking of details and other credentials of candidates at the time of joining any organisation can prevent people coming to the system using unfair means. “Exam centres should have CCTV cameras & recruitment agencies must use good cameras (at least 6 MP) and click colour photographs for more clarity. Best way to prevent any such fraud is to go for biometric attendance at the time of exam so that their authenticity can be verified when they join any office,” an official said.