A CLASSICAL CASE OF FORGERY AND EXPLOITATION

Gurubari Sabar, a tribal lady got a job as Anganwadi worker in 1989. Worked on the same post for more than 20 years. She was eventually promoted to the post of ICDS supervisor, being a matriculate lady and drawing a salary of more than Rs.20000. One fine day a complain lands that she has forged her matriculation certificate and that she actually has not passed the exam. The district administration and the vigilance office in Jeypore, promptly instituted inquiries. The board of secondary Education, Orissa was asked to verify her certificates, which on the face of it looked to be genuine. what came as reply from the Board of Secondary education was not just an eye opener, but also exposed how deep rooted and long standing the forgery racket is and how some people moving around as respectable people engaged in a noble profession are a part of this racket.

According to Gurubari Sabar, she had actually failed the examination in 1983 as a student of Govt Girls high school Robadi and in 1995 she again appeared as a correspondence student for the exam and an advocate named Padhi, took Rs. 30000 from her and gave her not only a passing certificate, but also a mark sheet and course completion certificate, which even an expert eye cannot differentiate from any original document. The supposedly false mark sheet from the year 1995 states her to have passed the exam in second class and that she secured total 397 marks .with the Roll.No. 03ECY23 . After receiving clarification from the Board of secondary education and after verification of the records of Robadi Govt Girls high school, the truth came out that Gurubari Sabar withthe exam no. 03ECY23 , has actually failed with a total of only 29 marks. Gurubari Sabar herself, blew the cover over the mystery of how she got the ' forged' mark sheet. The school records also bring to light the forgery of date of birth by Smt. Gurubari sabar.



After being carved out as a separate district in 1992, many vacancies in the new district came up to be filled. this was the right setting for the forgery racket to bloom and so many ' aspiring' candidates' for different jobs, who were not otherwise educationally qualified, got the mark sheets and passing certificates from these racket, which was run by some people involved in respectable professions. Mostly innocent tribal candidates, males and females, who could barely complete some formal education, but invariably failed in the matriculation exam, were lured into this trap to which they easily fell. The forged mark sheets and certificates are so genuine that the involvement of the officials of the board also cannot be ruled out.

THE GENUINE LOOKING FORGED MARKSHEET AND DOCUMENTS ARE GIVEN BELOW:

What is more disturbing is that those how run these forgery rackets, continued to exploit those tribal candidates who get govt jobs. In case of tribal ladies this type of exploitation can even go to the extent of sexual exploitation. When their demands of those rackets are not met, these people are said to be sending petitions in pseudonyms complaining against the forgery. Caught between devil and deep blue sea, the condition of these tribal candidates get deplorable. In this case complaint was received from one B.N. Sabar, without mentioning any further details.

However the district administration afetr inquiry and personal hearing of Smt. Gurubari Sabar, has dismissed her from service and taken steps for criminal action against her.