Source: Hindustan Times
State Agriculture Minister Dadasaheb Bhuse ordered a probe on Tuesday after a private agriculture college in Amravati stamped pass certificates of first- and second-year BSc agriculture students with ‘Covid-19 promoted’.
“There were no directives from the government to certify ‘Covid-19 promoted’ on the certificates issued to students. Who has taken the initiative and why?”, Bhuse said in a letter to the director-general of Maharashtra Council of Agriculture Education and Research and vice-chancellors of agriculture universities.
Taking serious concern about the issue, Bhuse on Tuesday sought a report in the matter within a week and urged the administration to “rectify their blunder”.
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Condemning the government for its “insensitivity” towards students, BJP leader and former state education minister, Ashish Shelar, tweeted, “It has come to the fore that the mark sheets of agriculture universities have ‘promoted Covid-19’ stamps. This is wrong and unjust to students.”
