Legal action against users of fake degrees

Those whose candidature has been cancelled include, Devinder Singh, student of M.Phil English, Suresh Gulia (M.A. Public Administration), Ravinder Kumar (B.Journalism), Rajesh Kumar (M.A. Economics), Jasmer Singh (M.Sc Statistics), Virender Singh (L.LB II Year), Navneet Singh (M.A. Physical Education), Subhash Chander, Satyavan, Surinder Kumar (All students of M.A. Rural Development) and Sonali Shree (M.A. Music).

They had submitted their B.A./B.Sc degree issued by Magadh university. A few years ago cases were registered against 32 students, who had obtained admission in post-graduate courses by producing fake degree.

When asked what steps were being taken to curb the menace, Kaushik said the doubtful cases were being referred to the respective universities.

He said teachers appointed in various faculties were confirmed after checking the veracity of their certificates.

Kaushik said that status of the university had gone up after 20 technical colleges were affiliated to it, on July 15 and said that he was writing to the UGC to upgrade it’s status to category B.

Ambala: The 8 to 10 per cent levy on acrylic yarn has put pressure on the traders. The General Merchants Association president Vishwa Prakash Walia and general secretary Ram Prakash Gupta in a memorandum addressed to the commercial taxation commissioner have sought that the dealers be assessed at 2 per cent as per the practice since October 1995 till September 1997 and should be extended to give relief the dealers whose business depended on the item.

The memorandum demanded a uniform tax to bring Haryana at par with Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Himachala Pradesh and Rajasthan and to lower it to the extent of 50 per cent for better recovery of revenue. The measure, it added would stall diversion of business to other states if the state government reduced the taxes equal to other states. The memo also urged the state government to arrange timely issuance of the ST forms, which were not readily available in the sales tax offices.