Telangana naitivity survey may require fresh documents

Hyderabad: Fresh certificates from the government will have to be obtained with details of fields relating the previous certificate copies, Aadhaar card number and household survey number, to be eligible for various welfares scheme offered by the Telangana government.

Another field in the survey requires the applicant to inform whether his family was settled in Telangana or elsewhere at the time of notification of the community as SC, ST or BC. This indicates that welfare schemes might be made available only to then residents of Telangana and not everyone.

However, the government is yet to clarify on this issue.

The adaptation of the Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act also gives legislative backing to the intensive household survey since the survey number is to be provided for obtaining community and nativity certificates.

Read: Telangana state asks nativity for SC, ST sops

The new proforma devised by the Telangana seeks far more details than the existing one used by the Andhra Pradesh government. New details included are --

• Place of permanent residence of the certificate seeker/his father/paternal grandfather, as on the date of the first notification declaring the community as a Scheduled Tribe, to which the certificate seeker claims to belong.
• Applicants also need to furnish existing caste certificates meaning they would have to obtain new ones now.
• Community of father and mother are also sought.
• Whether the applicant is natural born son or adopted is also sought by the proforma.
• Aadhaar card number.
• Household survey number.