Hyderabad: The TS government has delegated the power of issuing income certificates, currently held by tahsildars, to deputy tahsildars. Tahsildars have told the government that they could not attend important duties as they receive around eight lakh applications every year seeking income certificates.
Since the validity of certificates is only for one year, the officials are forced to issue new ones every year. The demand will be more from students during the commencement of every new academic year in June for various purposes like school/ college admissions, fee reimbursement, scholarships schemes besides loans from SC, ST, BC, Minority Corporations.
With income certificate being the sole criterion to determine the eligibility of applicants for various government schemes, lakhs of applications are being received every month, which are being forwarded to tahsildars for approvals.
With this, tahsildars are spending most of their time in office clearing income certificates through the year due to which several other important duties remain unattended to. CCLA Raymond Peter took up the issue following which a GO was issued on Wednesday.
