A delegation of Chhattisgarh Boudh Samaj led by Rajya Antyavasayi Sahakari Vitta Avam Vikas Nigam president JC Meshram held a courtesy meeting with Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh at his residence on Sunday night.
The members of the delegation thanked the Chief Minister for simplifying the process of issuance of caste certificates by passing a bill in the State Assembly. The delegation also felicitated the chief minister on the occasion.
The State Assembly in its budget session had passed the ‘Caste Certificate Simplification Bill’ which stated that any person from the Scheduled Caste, Tribes or Other Backward Classes who has not been able to gather evidence during the past 50 years for verification to get a certificate, then the same can be issued by the ‘Gram Sabha’ of a village, which could be utilised to carry out verification and issue a caste certificate.
Apart from this, a provision of two years imprisonment has been made in the law in case a person produced a fake caste certificate.