J’khand to issue caste certs from all schools

J’khand to issue caste certs from all schools

Dhritiman.Ray@timesgroup.com

Ranchi:22.12.2021

Jharkhand is set to become the first state to issue caste certificates from the campus of every governmentrun 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 reopened. In all other states, caste certificates are issued by the offices of district magistrates, block development offficers, tehsildars, mamlatdars and other 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.

J’khand third state to pass anti-lynching bill

Ranchi:

Jharkhand became on Tuesday the third state, after West Bengal and Rajasthan, to pass a bill to prevent mob lynchings.

The state assembly passed the Jharkhand (Prevention of Violence and Mob Lynching) Bill of 2021, introduced on the penultimate day of the ongoing winter session.

It was passed within an hour and without any major amendment or debate, reports Dhritiman Ray.