43,000 degrees from private Rajasthan University under investigation
PTC News Desk: An inquiry is underway into claims that a private university in Rajasthan issued phony, retroactive degrees for courses for which it lacked accreditation. There are 43,409 purportedly fraudulent degrees.
Since the university's founding in 2013, Om Prakash Jogender Singh (OPJS) University in Churu has allegedly awarded phony degrees. The Rajasthan police's Special Operation Group (SOG) is looking into the claims.
On April 8, the institution came under fire after 1,300 candidates for the 2022 physical training instructor (PTI) exam sent in their degrees. Only one hundred seats in the university's course were accredited in 2016. For the PTI 2022 exam, only students who registered before to 2020 were eligible.
The police claimed that the university could not have awarded so many legitimate degrees. This comes a few days after Joginder Singh Dalal, the university's founder and owner, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a scam.
Joginder Singh Dalal was the result of an investigation into paper leaks and cheating on government and college admission tests.
According to preliminary findings, the university's founder awarded backdated degrees to students who needed graduation credentials to apply for visas.
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The investigation was also spurred by many complaints from pupils.
According to DIG (SOG) Paris Deshmukh, the institution has given 1,640 degrees in physical education, 8,861 degrees in engineering, and 708 PhDs since 2013.
Police assume that applicants applied for government jobs—including the PTI exam, which was designed to fill approximately 4,500 positions—by using backdated degrees.
"There are less than thirty workers at the university. It is impossible to manage a university with such a little enrollment, Mr. Deshmukh stated. The Rajasthan Higher Education Department issued an order on June 24 to stop accepting new students for any kind of university course.
Prior to this, in December of last year, the University Grants Commission prohibited the university from accepting students into any PhD programme.
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- With inputs from agencies
