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Sher Ali vows verification of govt employees’ degrees
ISLAMABAD: Abid Ali, Chairman of National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education announced that degrees of all government employees of grade 17 and above, would be verified in a bid to purge the country of people having fake degrees, Geo News reported Thursday.Talking from Britain via telephone, he said degrees of all government employees including civil servants, doctors, engineers, National Assembly officials and educationists would be subjected to verification process.
Abid Sher Ali said the judiciary has been left on its own to vet degrees of their workers; however, Defence Ministry would be written about the verification of personnel of armed forces.
The NA body chief said Higher Education Commission (HEC) will compile a report on fake degrees by July 18 and 19; the degrees verification would be double-checked.
He continued if a university declares a fake degree as original, its Vice Chancellor and Registrar would be imprisoned for fraudulent behaviour.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv