During the special campaign launched by the State Government, total 1,22,66,811 caste certificates were issued at the school level. Digitally signed caste certificates are being kept safe in digital repository to enable students to get electronic copy of the certificate online whenever it is required.
Minister of state for General Administration lal Singh Arya informed that a total of 25 lakh 6 thousand 43 certificates of schedule caste, 35 lakh 25 thousand 157 certificates of schedule tribe, 62 lakh 12 thousand 704 certificates of other backward classes, 21 thousand 825 certificates of denotified tribe and 1082 certificates of nomad and semi nomad tribe were prepared till today.
The State Government has simplified the process of issuing caste certificates to SCs, STs and OBCs to eliminate the difficulties. Issuance of caste certificates is covered under the Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act. Also arrangements are made to issue certificates with digital signature of SDM. In order to facilitate students and to save their time in wandering around for caste certificate, the special campaign is launched by the general administration department for the students taking admission in class 1 from July 1, 2014.
Highest over 4 lakh caste certificates were prepared in Indore and Dhar districts. A total of 4 lakh 34 thousand 754 in Indore district and 4 lakh 16 thousand 654 caste certificates in Dhar district were prepared.
Similarly, over 3 lakh certificates in 10 districts were issued which includes Sagar, Khargone, Chhatarpur, Chhindwara, Shivpuri, Balaghat, Jabalpur, 3 Rewa, Betul and Satna. More than 2 lakh caste certificates were prepared in 25 districts including Damoh, Dewas, Rajgarh, Guna, Singrauli, Morena, Tikamgarh, Gwalior, Seoni, Vidisha, Khandwa, Sehore, Jhabua, Bhopal, Sidhi, Ratlam, Ujjain, Panna, Badwani, Mandsaur, Katni, Mandla, Raisen, Hoshangabad Narsinghpur. Further, over one lakh caste certificates were issued in 14 districts including Shahdol, Bhind, Alirajpur, Ashoknagar, Datia, Dindori, Shajapur, Umaria, Burhanpur, Neemuch, Sheopur , Anuppur Harda and Agar-Malwa.