Thiruvananthapuram: Unclear SSLC certificates, DPI wants company blacklisted

Thiruvananthapuram: The printing in many SSLC certificates of March this year is not clear and the DPI has asked the government to blacklist the company that supplied the toner. The education department had to reprint over 34,550 certificates due to lack of printing clarity.

Sources said that DPI K.V. Mohankumar in his capacity as the commissioner for public examinations has submitted a report to the general education department asking it to blacklist the company which supplied the toner used in the printer which was found to be of inferior quality. It is alleged that the company had refilled the toner with ink without replacing it with a new toner.

The students had complained that the letters in their certificates were getting erased. Pareeksha Bhavan had to replace certificates of all students who complained and it did not collect the fee for duplicate certificates.

When schools received the complaints first, the authorities blamed the students for failing to keep the certificates properly.

Sources said that Pareeksha Bhavan used four machines to print the certificates and one of them was found to be defective. All the cases were reported from Malabar region.