DGP and Director (Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau) Manoj Abraham.
| Record Credit rating: Particular Scheme
The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) has suggested that the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) habits appointments to public-funded executive-aided colleges to finish corruption in postings.
The company’s ideas, communicated to the manager by Director, VACB, Manoj Abraham, final week, came within the wake of “Operation Blackboard”, which focused District Academic Workplaces (41), Regional Deputy Director Workplaces (7) and Assistant Director Workplaces of the Vocational Larger Secondary Education Wing (7) in Kerala on November 11.
“Operation Blackboard” had detected brazen falsification of scholar admissions and attendance registers in aided colleges to retain recent educating posts and compose recent ones, in return for sizeable backhanders from job applicants and hefty commissions for depraved officials in district academic offices.
The VACB also unearthed severe violations of the statutory reservation norms prescribed below the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016.
The company insisted that aided-college managements post knowledge on appointments within the incapacity class for legitimate scrutiny, to rep sure compliance with the law.
The VACB also suggested that the manager utilize the Samanwaya Portal to song college appointments in precise time to detect any anomalies.
It also asked the manager to insist that the aided college managements post online, on the sixth working day of every academic 300 and sixty five days, the facts of students with addresses, the general scholar strength, the choice of sanctioned divisions, and sanctioned workers strength.
Furthermore, management must file the data as an affidavit with the local VACB region of enterprise to pre-empt manipulation.
The VACB suggested the introduction of an honest group of competent Overall Education officials, suggested by the District Collector, to overview the choice of students, which is the baseline relied upon by aided managements to repair the workers strength, or make clear their request for recent posts.
It also suggested the introduction of a Complaint Redressal Cell to handle provider-connected complaints of aided college workers.
The VACB suggested that the manager regularly rotate workers responsible of sections handling aided college appointments and workers issues to finish them from forming a depraved nexus with non-public managements.
The operation detected severe procedural violations concerning appointments, regularisation of provider, introduction of posts, fixing of workers strength per the choice of students and processing of provider issues, signalling an entrenched depraved nexus between officials and non-public managements of executive-aided colleges within the Command.
Published – November 30, 2025 11:18 am IST
