Issuing of domicile certificates to be made easier in J&K

Tribune News Service

Jammu, September 28

After empowering naib tehsildars to issue domicile certificate, the J&K administration is going to further amend and modify the existing rules to ease the process of getting the document.

Govt agrees to amend rules

After discussion with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Subrahmanyam, the UT Govt has agreed in principle to amend/modify rules for ease in the issue of domicile certificate. Formal orders being issued soon. — Dr Jitendra Singh, Union minister

After discussing the issue with Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, Union Minister and Lok Sabha Member from the Udhampur-Doda constituency, Dr Jitendra Singh, said rules would be modified soon in this regard.

“After discussion with L-G Manoj Sinha and Chief Secretary Subrahmanyam, the UT Govt has agreed in principle to amend/modify rules for ease in the issue of domicile certificate. Formal orders being issued soon,” he tweeted.

The minister added: “This will particularly facilitate issuing domicile certificate to children producing the PRC of any of the parents and women from outside married to the PRC holder men.”

Earlier, the J&K Government had amended rules to authorise naib tehsildars to issue domicile certificates.

Till September 21, the Jammu and Kashmir Government had issued over 18.52 lakh domicile certificates against 21.99 lakh applications. As per the official data, 30,445 domicile certificates were issued to the non-state subjects, excluding West Pakistani refugees, Valmiki and Gorkhas.

While 4,97,238 certificates have been issued in the Kashmir division, 13,35,643 domicile certificates have been granted in the Jammu division.

The numbers include 17,978 domicile certificates issued to West Pakistani refugees, 1,825 to Valmiki community and 755 to Gorkhas.

The process of issuing domicile certificates in the UT started in June.

Join Whatsapp Channel of The Tribune for latest updates.