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PIA expels 300 employees with fake educational qualifications
our correspondent
Saturday, April 05, 2014
KARACHI: PIA sacks 300 employees. Degrees and other educational qualifications of as many as 350 employees of the national flag carrier have been found ‘fake’ and 'counterfeit'.
"We have terminated 350 employees after their educational degrees turned out to be fake. Five pilots, a good number of air hostesses, senior services staff and some Engineers are included in the list of those sacked during the last six months when the process of verification of educational credentials of over 30,000 PIA employees began," Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) spokesperson Mashhood Tajwar told .
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) have now terminated services of around 300 employees with immediate effect while remaining 50 cases are subjudice and courts’ decisions are waited for further action.
Such measures were adopted in compliance with instructions of Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The PIA has been vigorously pursuing the issue of credential verifications of its employees, the General Manager Public Affairs PIA Muhammad Mashhood Tajwar said on Friday.
The Human Resource Administration Department of the PIA has been performing this 'gigantic task' of verification of credentials of around '16,000 employees'. The PIA launch the process of degrees verification some six months ago (since October, 2013), he mentioned.
“So far more than 30,000 degrees have been dispatched to concerned educational institutions (universities and boards) for the verifications. Meanwhile, dispatch process of remaining 3,000 degrees will be completed by mid of April. Up till now verification of now more than 6,000 degrees have been received and out of which 350 degrees were found fake”.
The verification process is going on in a very transparent manner across the board encompassing all categories and groups of employees without any discrimination. As per instructions of Supreme Court’s instructions a prompt action was taken against the fake degree holders according to Corporation’s Rules and Regulations, he claimed.
For possessing fake educational certificates, and degrees, a very serious crime which will result in the documents to be corroborated, severe action will be taken against those found guilty of forging their particulars.
The PIA has expedited the task of verification, however, appropriate action can only be initiated once the replies from concerned universities or examination board’s is received, he concluded.
"This is very alarming that even senior pilots serving in PIA had fake degrees," an official said.
PIA finds degrees of 350 employees fake - thenews.com.pk
Such super clear cut strict measures are must needed in all national companies as well as local companies...it is a great step forward to revival.
