RANCHI: Jharkhand is set to become the first state to issue caste certificates from the campus of every government-run and private school to ensure each child has one within the next six months, CM Hemant Soren announced in the assembly on Tuesday.
“We will conduct a special drive in all government and private schools after December 29. Every student will be issued a caste certificate,” Soren said.
Odisha started the practice of schools issuing SC, ST and OBC certificates to children in November 2017, but restricted it to government-run institutions. The process was suspended during the pandemic and has yet to resume, although many schools have since reopened.
In all other states, caste certificates are issued by the offices of district magistrates, block development offficers, tehsildars, mamlatdars and other designated revenue officials.
Soren revealed the JMMled government’s plan to take issuance of caste certificates to all schools in response to a notice brought by BJP MLA Neelkanth Singh Munda, seeking to know what the administration was doing to expedite the process.
“We will conduct a special drive in all government and private schools after December 29. Every student will be issued a caste certificate,” Soren said.
Odisha started the practice of schools issuing SC, ST and OBC certificates to children in November 2017, but restricted it to government-run institutions. The process was suspended during the pandemic and has yet to resume, although many schools have since reopened.
In all other states, caste certificates are issued by the offices of district magistrates, block development offficers, tehsildars, mamlatdars and other designated revenue officials.
Soren revealed the JMMled government’s plan to take issuance of caste certificates to all schools in response to a notice brought by BJP MLA Neelkanth Singh Munda, seeking to know what the administration was doing to expedite the process.
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