Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 3: Bhartiya Janta Party today said that the recent decision of the Supreme Court of India, delivered by its Double Bench, that the category certificates of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) should not be verified again and again, need to be honoured and implemented in letter and spirit by the Government at the Centre and in the States/UTs.
This was stated by Balbir Ram Rattan, J&K BJP Spokesperson, while talking to media persons at party headquarter on Friday. He said that the Apex Court has, indeed given a relief to a large population of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes across the country, who had been feeling harassed on applying for benefit of the reserved category in the form of Government job or availing any social scheme.
The BJP Spokesperson said that the Government has every right to verify the documents of a person, be it academic, technical, professional or category, but it would not be justified if someone is asked to go though the verification of his or her claim to be member of a reserved category time and again. He said that like other documents, the concerned department, should carry the verification of the reserved category certificate at the initial stage if someone is given employment or any other benefit and should not be harassed repeatedly.
Balbir said that the extent of agony through which these people pass can be well judged by looking at the problems being faced by the SCs in particular, residing in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir, who had to procure different certificates for jobs in departments under Central Government and the State and also they were required to apply for fresh certificates after every 12-15 years under new SRO and they can explain well what the agony they passed through during their life as a SC.
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