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Panchayat poll candidates rush to Rajasthan board office to get education certificates
JAIPUR: Many candidates eying to contest gram panchayat polls are queuing up at Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education in Ajmer for class X pass certificates but returning barehanded. As per RBSE policy they have destroyed the certificates from 1970 and before due to space crunch to store them.
State government in its ordinance made class X the minimum educational qualification required for the post of pradhans. Candidates who have cleared class X and don't have any certificate are turning up at the board to acquire the same.
Rajendra Gupta, public relations officer at RBSE said, "This policy of destroying the certificates was adopted way back in 2005 and digitization of certificates is underway." The board directs such candidates to their schools to get the copy of certificates which is rarely to be found.
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For many, candidates who claimed to have passed the class X before 1970 and lost their certificates are at the receiving end. Shakoor Khati from Tijara in Alwar claimed to have cleared his class X in 1970 from a government school in Kakrali town said, "I am a farmer with small landholding. I lost my educational certificates during flooding in 1990. I also contested polls in 2010 but never required it. This is for the first time I felt the need to have it."
The absence of certificates will leave no option for the state election commission to cross check the authenticity of the certificates in question.
Noor Mohammad, a social activist, who works in Mewat area expressed fear that bar of educational qualification is leading to fake certificates from schools. "Those who are in the position to influence can easily get such certificates. I request the election commission to cross check all academic certificates," said Mohammad.
Kamal Tak of Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan who is party in challenging this ordinance in the Supreme Court said, "Such problems are unfortunate. Already many eligible candidates are facing the danger of not contesting the polls and secondly the absence of certificates will further evade the chances of many more candidates."
src:timesofindia