More than seventy employees at the Gorkhapatra Corporation were found to have presented fake educational certificates to the management. The fact was made public after the Public Accounts Committee received a list containing the names of everyone in the corporation who had a false certificate.
The investigation committee informed that those with fraudulent papers include employees starting from the peon level to top management officials. The Deputy General Manager Hum Bahadur Basyal himself is found to have fake certificates. All his certificates after the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exam were found to be fake. In a report submitted by the corporation, Basyal's first and second semester certificates in the intermediate exams, as a private candidate from the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, were said to have been issued on the same date. The report also says there are a lot of discrepancies like the use of different surname on certificates at each examination level. The surname changes from BC in the SLC marksheet, to Chetri in the SLC certificate, Basel Chetri in the IA certificate and Basyal in the Bachelor's certificate.
Likewise, deputy controller Yagya Raj Joshi has also been accused of having fake certificates starting from the SLC exam. It has been pointed out that necessary action ought to be taken against Joshi, as he has not responded to any of the demands that the originals of the certificates be presented. The certificates of another manager, Sudan Aryal, also appear suspicious as he has not presented the admit card to his BA first year exams and he has not passed the English exams as required by all Tribhuvan University graduates. He too has not complied with the request to present the original certificates.
The investigation initiated by the PAC has not only created panic situations within Gorkhapatra but in many other corporations as well. Many are trying to blame honest staff members while the guilty onesare resigning from their posts. The staff at Gorkhapatra are demanding that the guilty be punished according to the law before they slip away. Government employees of other big corporations have also been shaken by the recent news of the fake certificate investigations and many have begun demanding that their organisations be investigated as well.