Telangana’s Intermediate Education Department has cancelled the appointments of 35 junior lecturers after universities confirmed that degrees submitted for regularisation from contract service were not genuine, according to an official order issued by the Director of Intermediate Education on October 1.
The lecturers were working in government junior colleges across the state and taught subjects including English, mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, civics, commerce and Hindi. The department’s action followed a verification exercise covering the certificates of nearly 360 junior lecturers who had been regularised from contract service.
The department approached the respective universities with the postgraduate and BTech certificates submitted by the lecturers and sought confirmation of their authenticity. The exercise followed complaints that some contract junior lecturers had used fake educational certificates while seeking regularisation in 2023.
The department had earlier issued show-cause notices to 37 lecturers after universities indicated that certificates submitted by them had not been issued by the institutions concerned. The lecturers were asked to explain why disciplinary action should not be initiated and why criminal cases for forgery and cheating should not be filed.
Of the 37 lecturers who received notices, 35 have now been included in the list of those whose appointments were cancelled. The department said their explanations did not satisfactorily address the findings from the universities. The orders were issued by the Director of Intermediate Education, an authority functioning under the Board of Intermediate Education.
In one case, the appointment of an English lecturer at a government junior college in Nirmal was cancelled after the university confirmed that it had not issued the certificate submitted by him. The department examined his explanation but rejected it, citing the university’s denial of the certificate’s issuance and genuineness.
The latest action follows earlier departmental proceedings against lecturers whose credentials were found to be false. The department had previously dismissed 20 junior lecturers after fake certificates were detected and terminated another 20 during the regularisation process.
The cancellations affect appointments made in government junior colleges, where lecturers serve students enrolled in the state’s intermediate education system. The department’s order records the immediate administrative consequence of the university verification process; the supplied report does not state whether criminal cases have been filed against the 35 lecturers. The department’s earlier notices had asked them to respond to the possibility of criminal proceedings for forgery and cheating.
