Software to verify authenticity of sports certificates of govt job aspirants

Candidates submitting fake sports certificates to join government jobs has been a menace for long but now a software has been developed to check the authenticity of these documents and bring transparency in the recruitment processThe National Informatics Centre NIC has come up with an application that would verify the authenticity of sports certificates submitted by candidates at the time of applying for jobs in Maharashtra government departments The software is in its final stage of testing and will go live soon Om Prakash Bakoria Maharashtra sports commissioner told PTIThere is a five per cent quota for the candidates who have won at least statelevel tournaments in all departments of the Maharashtra government However in March this year the thenMaharashtra sports minister Sunil Kedar had admitted in the state Assembly that several people had produced fake sports certificate to get government jobs At present the process to verify genuineness of sports certificates submitted by government job aspirants under the five per cent quota is tedious and timeconsumingAlso Read Flower beds to replace vegetables grown on land patches along rail tracks on Mumbai suburban networkOnce a candidate applies for a government job via sports quota he or she has to submit a proper certificate of hisher excellence However the number of recognised sports to qualify for benefit under quota by the government its several tournaments held in various parts of Maharashtra or the country and their certificates ndash in itself is a huge data to processThere is no standard format of design size or shape of the certificate issued by sports organisations It is nearly impossible for the scrutiny officer to verify genuineness of such documents in a short period of time said a senior official in the state sports commissionerate This is where the NIC software is going to be of big help to authorities involved in recruitment processThe NIC was brought in to fix the problem Bakoria said adding Certificates submitted by athletes will be uploaded on NICs cloud storage platform called Meghraj Its current capacity of storing data is 70 GB and will be increased gradually as more certificates are digitised We are planning to go live with the new software on August 8 Once we go live every new certificate will have a QR code It can be scanned anywhere and by any officer to check its authenticity he explainedJob aspirants will be kept in the loop during the certificate verification process When a candidate submits his sports certificate while applying for a government job the department concerned with the help of the software will update the applicant with SMS from time to time about verification stages When the certificate is accepted or declined by the software it will be intimated immediately to the applicant the sports commissioner saidAsked about the size of data the sports commissionerate will be handling Bakoria said In the last calendar year as many as 19000 certificates were issued The number of certificates to be issued every year will vary and depend on how many sports tournaments have been organized in that yearThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever