While educational qualification of all ex-servicemen retiring after serving 15 years in the armed forces is considered equivalent to graduation in most of the states, the Himachal government is yet to recognise it, leaving a large number of them disappointed.
Many of them do not get re-employed on class III posts as they are not considered qualified for these jobs due to problem of equivalence since minimum qualification for such posts is 10+2 now.
Since the Army recruited even class V or VIII pass as soldiers a few years back, Army regiments issued graduation certificates to armed personnel completing 15 years of service on the basis of experience and qualification improvement.
These graduation-equivalence certificates called regiment certificates are recognised by the personnel department of the Government of India and most of the states, including Punjab.
The central government has issued specific notification treating all armed personnel completing 15 years of service equivalent to graduation.
Though the Himachal Pradesh government has been adopting the Punjab government rules in service matter, it is overlooking this fact.
Since a large number of people from the state are serving the armed forces and are keen to get re-employed after retirement in the state, they find the law disappointing.
Talking about the problem, Col BC Lagwal, chairman, Ex-servicemen department of Congress, said, “Since Army education units take education improvement courses, all Army personnel are issued graduation certificates after 15 years of service. As this is not recognised in the state, many ex-servicemen are deprived of class III government job here.”
Many other ex-servicemen also rued this fact and demanded that the state government should also recognise regiment certificates equivalent to graduation.
Meanwhile, secretary personnel DS Dogra said, “If this certificate is recognised by other states, we would also consider it.”
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