PTU: Book 37 students for forging documents

Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 11

Three months after World Education Services (WES), a firm engaged in verification of educational credentials of students for immigration, stopped evaluating documents of IK Gujral Punjab Technical University (IKG-PTU) students, the university has now recommended lodging of FIR against 37 students for allegedly forging documents.

The firm had announced its decision in September after pointing out increased instances of forged transcripts being submitted, following which the university officials conducted an internal inquiry spanning over two months. Now, it has asked the Kapurthala police to lodge FIRs.

The IKGPTU officials said they conducted an internal inquiry and made a report of forged degrees/Detailed Marks Cards (DMCs) and other documents which they have now handed over to the police.

The three sections of the university, including examination, IT and public relations, shared public communications they had dispatched to the firm to help find out the tactics used by the students to forge their results for foreign admission.

To ensure that such malpractices don’t occur in future, IKGPTU has developed an online secure portal for verification and shared details with agencies. After a successful trial of the new system, the international agency has even resumed its services to IKGPTU students.

The university has clarified that from now onwards it will consider applications for documents related to international agencies only through its online link support.ptu.ac.in.

Besides, the university will directly send the documents to foreign agencies or any other agency/body/institution. Before dispatch, the university will provide the same documents on its web portal so that the agency can verify documents in online mode.

Vice-Chancellor Dr Ajay Kumar Sharma said, “Due to wrong attempts by a few students, lakhs of students and alumni of IKGPTU cannot be made to suffer.”