BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has launched school certificate programme to provide caste, resident, income and backward class certificates to high school students at the educational institutions. The objective of the programme is to provide tahasil services at the doorsteps of schools to ease inconvenience faced by students and parents in obtaining miscellaneous certificates from tahasil offices. Class IX and X students of all the Government high schools under School and Mass Education and Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes Development departments and grant-in-aid and block grant schools will be benefited, said sources in the Revenue Department. The State Government has directed the district collectors to launch the programme in a mission mode. Efforts should be made to dispose of applications pending before tahasil offices for issue of different certificates by making them available to students at school level latest by March 31. The guidelines prepared by the Government said tahasildars should hold meetings with headmasters/headmistresses. Revenue inspectors of tahasils and welfare extension officers of blocks will attend the meeting to discuss modalities for documentation of application forms under the Miscellaneous Certificate Rules and Procedure for issue of different certificates. Respective schools will have to prepare the number and the category of students studying in class IX and X and tahasildars issue required number of application forms to headmasters/headmistresses. High school staff will fill up the application forms of each student in all respects and the forms will be verified by the revenue inspectors in the presence of school staff, members of school management committee and representatives of panchayati raj institutions (PRIs). While court fee has been exempted for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and girl students, students belonging to socially and economically backward class (SEBC) and other backward class (OBC) will be charged Rs 5 less than the actual court fee. Parents of the students have to sign a declaration in a plane paper certifying that the information provided regarding annual income and caste is true. The application forms and the inquiry report of revenue inspectors will be sent to the tahasil office for registration of miscellaneous cases. The tahasildar will fix a date for camp court in the schools where the applications will be verified in the presence of headmasters/headmistresses and other teachers of the high schools, welfare extension officers and PRI representatives. The tahasildars will receive Rs 5 each out of funds sanctioned under Rashtriya Madhaymik Sikhya Abhijan for each certificate issued, said a Government circular.
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