On Punia's top agenda: Cancellation of illegal SC certificates
Virendra Nath Bhatt Posted online: Sat Nov 06 2010, 04:00 hrs
Lucknow : Unhappy with the delay in cancellation of an estimated
50,000 'illegal' Scheduled Castes certificates by the incumbent
Mayawati government, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes
under the chairmanship of P L Punia will raise the issue with the
state government officials scheduled later for this month.
"It's a serious matter and this issue will be high on our agenda,"
said PL Punia, the chairman of the commission.
The SC certificates in question were issued to people belonging to
Other Backward Castes (OBCs) by the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav
regime in 2005. Although the Mayawati government revoked the order,
little has been done to cancel the certificates. Therefore, those
holding the certificates can use these to avail benefits meant for the
SC, the commission feels.
Dr Chandrahas, director of the commission's office in Lucknow that
looks after UP and Uttarakhand, said they had taken up the issue with
the UP government earlier this year, but only a few hundred
certificates were cancelled, that too not in a proper manner.
"It is difficult to ascertain whether the district magistrates are
aware of the process of cancelling the certificates or they are
interested in doing it," said Dr Chandrahas.
"Most of the cancellations have been done on the file, while the legal
process requires that the original certificate should be recalled and
cancelled with red ink," he added.
According to commission, close to 700 certificates were issued in each
district by tehsildars, and the record of the each caste certificate
issued from a district is available with the authorities.
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