Domicile certificate mandatory for admission in J&K educational institutions

Students who want to take admission to any educational institutions in the union territory Jammu and Kasmir can now show their domicile status certificate as proof in place of the permanent resident certificate.

Jammu and Kashmir administration has said that now students can seek admission in any educational institutions in the union territory by providing a domicile status certificate.

The requirement of a Permanent Resident Certificate wherever prescribed for admission into educational institutions will be replaced with a domicile certificate, the administration said.

It also directed all administrative secretaries to immediately effect corresponding changes in statutes or rules.

"With the enactment of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, series of constitutional changes have been affected. In terms of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Removal of Difficulties) Order, 2019, any reference by whatever form to 'permanent residents of the state or hereditary state subject', wherever they occurred in any Act or notification issued or rules, orders made thereunder, stands omitted with necessary grammatical variation,” the circular said.

On May 18, the administration had reopened the fresh registration for Kashmiri migrants and displaced persons, paving way for the inclusion of bonafide people who migrated from the union territory.

Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) requested Lt Governor Girish Chander Murmu to consider existing state subjects of the residents as domicile certificates.

"The people having state subjects of erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir should be considered as a domicile. They should not be forced to stand in queues for new domicile certificates which would be an injustice for the residents, who have already completed their documents, and it would create chaos in the society," senior JKAP leader Vikram Malhotra said.

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