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 process.

The 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 PTI.