Uttarakhand govt initiative seeks to make it easier for school students to obtain caste, income certificates

According to the state information department, guidelines for the initiative have been issued on the instruction of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

According to the guidelines, issued to all DMs, the committees chaired by the DMs in each district will assess the number of students in class 11 and 12. At the tehsil level, a committee constituted under the chairmanship of the deputy collector will get a date-wise roster prepared for the teams of officials and data entry operators visiting schools. An action plan will be prepared by determining the timeframe for the process of issuing these certificates. Weekly monitoring of the programme will be done at the district level.

The CM has directed that information about rosters prepared by the committees should be given wide publicity so that the schools are aware of them. Information about necessary documents for certificates will be made available to principals, students, parents, and local public representatives.

After the certificates are issued by the tehsildar or SDM after the receipt of the necessary fee and documents, the said certificates are expected to be made available to the principal of the school concerned within a week for distribution to students. Monitoring of the entire process will be done by the district-level committee in coordination with all SDMs, tehsildars and block education officers.