President of the Uttarakhand Other Backward Caste Commission Ashok Verma urged the district officials to cooperate with the people, irrespective of social status and castes. He met the district officials at Dam Khoti on Wednesday.
In course of the meeting, he sought clarification from the District Magistrate HC Semwal over the complaints received over the district administration not providing the people with the caste certificates. The commission is being crammed with such complaints, he said. He particularly sought information from the District Magistrate about the people belonging to castes like Khaagi – Chauhan, Rood and Other Backward Castes residing in Haridwar district.
He also heard the complaint earlier filed by Harpal Singh, assistant lecturer of Government Middle School at Pilipadao under Bhadarabad block of the district. Harpal Singh had informed the commission that he had not been receiving salary since 2002. Verma had ordered the petitioner and the concerned officials of education department to appear in the commission with proper documents and progress report made till date.
During the meeting, Secretary of the commission Satish Chander Devrani, District Education Officer Primary Jagmohan Soni, Block Education Officer Bhadarabad Kaushal Prasad, District Social Welfare Officer Anil Saini, Tehsildar Haridwar Dinesh Mohan Uniyal, Adv Dev Singh and others were present.