East Khasi Hills: In East Khasi Hills District, Shillong, around 80 percent of the population comprises of the Schedule Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) community.
Monitoring and issuing of SC/ST Certificates is one of the major job done by the staff of the Establishment Branch in the office of the Deputy Commissioner. Daily about 80 certificates are issued. In some cases, that is after the declaration of High School Result there is a heavy rush for issue of SC/ST certificates, and the number increases to about 500. Also whenever there is a vacancy for a new post where there is reservation for SC/ST, the number of people applying for the certificate increases.
Therefore the work of issuing certificates is very tedious and also there is no system to check the duplication of applications.
NIC East Khasi Hills District has therefore taken up the responsibility of developing a Computerized System for issuing of SC/ST certificates.
The computerized system will not only speed-up the certificate issuing process, but will also provide a systematic solution to check the repetition of applications.