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 BOGUS CASTE CERTIFICATES TO AVAIL RESERVATIONS

New Delhi, 13 February 2006

New Delhi, February 14 (INFA): A large number of ineligible groups and individuals are increasingly getting bogus community certificate with a view to getting the benefit of reservations in educational institutions and Government and public sector employment, it is officially stated.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has been getting a large number of representations with regard to people having got admissions or appointments based on bogus caste certificates. 

Article 338 (5) of the Constitution vests in the Commission the responsibility “to enquire into specific complaints with respect to the deprivation of rights and safeguards of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes”.

It has been observed that the admissions wrongly gained or appointment wrongly obtained on the basis of bogus social status certificates necessarily has the effect of depriving the genuine Scheduled Castes candidates of the benefits conferred on them by the Constitution.                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Based on these provisions and principles, the Commission has taken up enquiries in thousands of cases of complaints of false caste certificates, either directly or through its State Offices or the concerned agencies of the State Government.

The Commission has also asked the Centre to set up a caste verification committee on the lines one in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Punjab to prevent the issue of false caste certificates in the remaining States.

During 2005 the Commission visited various State Governments and UT Administrations and held detailed review meetings with the Chief Secretaries, and other senior officers in order to evaluate the implementation of development programmes for Scheduled Castes, protective legislations, reservation policy in appointments/promotions and for admission to educational / professional courses and other related matters.

The Commission also visited a large number of districts throughout the country to evaluate the development and other programmes meant for Scheduled Castes.  It also reviewed the working of service safeguards available to the SCs with a number of PSUs, financial institutions and banks, universities and other public funded institutions/organizations. 

Detailed reviews of Central Ministries Departments dealing with implementations of development programme for Scheduled Castes have also been undertaken by the Commission.

The Government of India passed PCR Act, 1955 and SC and ST (POA) Act, 1989, to protect the SCs and STs against the practice of untouchability and against atrocities and exploitation by other communities.  The practice of untouchability still continues in many overt and covert forms, though its severity has considerably been reduced and the SCs have started asserting their constitutional and legal rights against this social evil.  ---INFA

 

 

 

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