One shudders to think
of the consequences of fake professionals such as doctors and engineers practicing their trade or doing jobs with bogus certificates
Scourge of forged certificates
Several national dailies have been reporting intermittently about forged certificates and their buying and selling recently. The reports were also on police, RAB and other law enforcement bodies discovering such certificate making gangs, arresting them and obtaining their confessions.
The large number of these forged certificates and knowing that these have been selling among their users to be used fraudulently to deceive people and get jobs or take admission in educational institutions at home or abroad, is no doubt a shocking experience but nothing unique. For cases of finding forged certificates and their use had been reported on and off in our media in recent years.
From the confession of the arrested persons, it could be learnt then that they have been making certificates not only of public
and private universities but virtually of all other academic institutions such as medical colleges, engineering
colleges and universities, polytechnics, etc. They were successfully marketing these fake certificates among the underground buyers .
Thus, one may assume that a considerable number of people have been put into positions of responsibility in government offices, private offices, in banks, insurance companies and other enterprises because the employers in all cases were fooled by their forged certificates. It should be obvious that these employees who are not fit to be doing the jobs pose a threat to the smooth and good functioning of the organisations where they are serving.
One shudders to think of the consequences of fake professionals such as doctors and engineers practicing their trade or doing jobs with bogus certificates. For we cannot absolutely have bogus doctors and engineers in responsible positions for at stake would be lives and safety of people respectively.
Besides, there is also the aspect of foreign admission of Bangladeshi students. Undoubtedly, the greater number of them are talented and possess genuine academic certificates. However, if news circulates in foreign countries that at least some certificates of applicants from Bangladesh are forged ones, then that could trigger a sweeping adverse reaction.
So, considering all these, greater vigilance by law enforcement authorities against this crime is very much in need.
