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Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Friday made a big announcement to ensure hassle free distribution of Caste, Resident and Income certificates to 10th standard students belonging to all schools or educational institutions coming under the purview of any administrative department of Government of the State.
The State Revenue Department in its latest notification to the collectors of all districts said that the Class 10 students in the State will now henceforth get their certificates in their own schools under the due compliance of the following guidelines.
- The Revenue Inspector (RI) of the locality shall make camp on a fixed date in each school before the summer vacation and distribute the application forms to the students belonging to standard 10 in presence of the Headmaster and the Class Teacher. The application forms may be printed centrally by the district administration and the expenditure towards the same shall be met from the user fees.
- The students shall bring the filled in application forms along with requisite documents (Annexure-A) while coming to school after summer vacation which shall be counter-signed by the Headmaster of the School after due diligence.
- The Revenue Inspector shall visit the school during the month of July as per the programme and enquire into the genuineness of the particulars of the application forms in presence of the Headmaster and the concerned Class Teacher.
- The Revenue Inspector shall collect all filled in application forms from the Headmaster of the school and ensure their online filing through e-District Portal. Thereafter, the applications shall be processed as per the existing procedure.
- The Revenue Inspector shall submit the verification/enquiry report to the Tahasildar/ Addl. Tahasildar wherever required.
- After disposal of applications, certificates shall be issued in favour of the eligible students by the concerned Tahasildar/ Addl. Tahasildar.
- The Revenue Inspector of the locality shall collect the certificates from Tahasils and handover the same to the students in presence of Headmaster of the concerned school as per the programme.
- The entire process starting from distribution of application forms to handing over of the certificates shall be completed by 31′ August of each year.
- The certificates can also be downloaded by the students themselves from the e-District Portal, their mailbox and DigiLocker.
- Administrative Departments like School & Mass Education Department, ST&SC Dev & M&BCW Department and Women & Child Development Department shall issue instructions to their field officers for extending necessary support wherever required, for timely and successful implementation of the Programme.
- A Deputy Collector may be nominated as Nodal Officer of the district for smooth implementation of the School Certificate Programme and furnishing information regularly to the Government.
- Sub-Collectors shall monitor this programme on weekly basis. Collectors shall ensure the implementation of the programme within a fixed timeline.
