Degree verification process becomes a nightmare for CDA officials
ISLAMABAD:29 June: Several fake degree holder officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have started giving advertisements in the newspapers claiming to have lost their documents to avoid degree verification.
The degree verification process was initiated a few months back and when the fake degree holders were asked to provide original credentials, many of them have resorted to delaying tactics by claiming to have lost them.
A source in the Capital Development Authority said CDA Director Administration Safdar Shah is one of the officials, who have been facing an inquiry for owning a fake degree. The director administration has recently published an advertisement in a local newspaper claiming his degree from Bahawalpur University has gone missing.
According to the source, the said university has refused to verify Shah’s degree after he tampered with it to show 2nd division in the credential instead of the 3rd division, which he actually scored in the academic record.
While the inquiry is under way, Shah has got the ad published in the newspaper to avoid investigation and to deceive the inquiry team, the source said.
A senior Capital Development Authority official said that the process of degrees verification will be completed within 14 days and the fake degree holders will be brought to book.
Earlier, the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) officers from grade 17 to 20 have submitted their degrees before the committee set up for degree verification. According to the details, Capital Development Authority Chairman Maroof Afzal had issued instructions for verification of degrees of more than 1,500 employees of the Capital Development Authority. In this regard, a committee was constituted which is being headed by CDA Human Resource Development (HRD) Director General Nadeem Akbar Malik. In the first phase
the Committee had sought
degrees of several employees from Grade 17-20 employees, which have been submitted and their
verification process from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) was requested.
Daily Times.
