Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Monday said that 14.29 lakh domicile certificates have been issued against 18.91 lakh applications in JK, so far.
The administration spokesperson said that 78,321 applications have been rejected for want of documents, 12,617 have been issued to West Pakistan Refugee, 524 to Balmeki community and 10 has been issued to Gorkha’s community as on September 7, 2020.
Permanent residents of the erstwhile State of JK who received the Permanent Resident Certificates before 31-10-2019 shall be eligible for receiving their domiciles on the basis of PRCs alone and no other additional document shall be required for such residents.
Similarly, for Kashmir migrants, they can get domiciles on production of either a PRC or Certificate of registration of migrant. Further for bonafide migrants and bonafide displaced persons who have migrated but have not registered with the Relief Department, there is a special limited provision for registration.
In order to further simplify the process and ensure issuance of domicile in the bare minimum time, the government had issued a notification SO 263 dated 25th of August, 2020 whereby the Competent Authority has been bound to issue the domiciles provided under clause 1(a) and clause 4(a) within a period of five working days from the date such application is received by it.
The department is making all efforts to deliver the domiciles to applicant both through online and offline mode.
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