How To Identify Caste Certificate Number

[Osman Briseno]

Citizensprimary interaction with the government is for obtaining various services. National Governance Plan (NeGP) was envisioned with the ultimate objective of bringing public services closer to homes of citizens as articulated in the Vision Statement of NeGP,

"Make all Government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets, and ensure efficiency, transparency, and reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the common man"

In an attempt to fulfill this vision, the Government of Odisha has implemented the ServicePlus platform of NIC to provide services to citizens.

ServicePlus is a single, unified, metadata-based portal to citizen and government alike where any service can be defined, accessed, delivered and monitored. ServicePlus facilitates any Central or State Government department or local governments (Panchayats, Municipalities etc.) to define all the metadata related to service like service definition, service coverage, target beneficiary, applicable submission modes, applicable service charges, creation of application forms and intermediate documents, application life cycle and output certificate.

A citizen can apply for a Service through following ways:

Freezing of the application checks the complete inter relation between the various service requirements before activating the service.View All Available Services is displayed on the screen.Click on Advance search. The list of services will be displayed.In action field you will get the application form link, after clicking on application form link you will get the application submission location form as screen below.Select your location from the Service list of district Panchayat from a drop down list.After clicking on submit the Application form will be displayed.When you click on Next Button, you will move on enclosures, it display following fields Type of Enclosure, Enclosure Document, Source and File Reference as screen below.Select whether you want to attach a new file or select from documents repository.If you select attach new file you will have to browse and attach a new file from your computer.If you select documents repository select the file to be attached along with application from your documents attached in your profile.Again when you click on Next Button, the charge screen will appear as below. If an online payment option is available for the service make payment option will be available. Make payment if required and click on submit.-->

A citizen can apply for a Service through following ways:

Online - Citizen can apply for a service online by registering (Once only). After registration username and password can be generated. Click on Login link and use username and password to access the application form.CSC - Citizen may contact any CSC for applying the service.

You can track your application status by the following ways:

To get the status of application, click on "Check Your Application Status" button on the Home page.You can also check the application status using your credentials (username and password). Click on Login on Home page and enter the credentials. Once you logged in, click on "Track Application Status" link provided under "View Status of Application".

You can print your issued certificate in the following ways:

Click on login button placed on top right of the home page. Use your credentials (username and password) and login to the system.Click on View Status of Application --> Track Application Status under Menu.Click on Current Status --> Delivered against the Application Reference No.A pop up window named "Application Form Details" will be displayed. Scroll down and Click on "Output Certificate" link.The desired e-Certificate will be displayed on the screen. You can take the print now.

Once can verify the issued e-Certificates by the following steps:

Click on "Verify your Certificate" button on the Home page.Enter the application reference number and token number printed on the certificate.Click on "Download Certificate". The certificate gets downloaded if the entered values are correct.

The e-District initiative of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology(DeitY), Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT), and Government of India has been identified as one of the Mission Mode Projects at the State level. The project aims at providing support to the basic administrative unit i.e "District Administration" to enable content development of G2C services, which would optimally leverage and utilize the three infrastructure pillars, the State Wide Area Network(SWAN) for connectivity, State Data Centre(SDC) for secure and fail safe data storage, and Common Service Centres(CSCs) as the primary front-ends for service delivery to deliver services to the citizens at their doorstep.

The e-District portal involves integrated and seamless delivery of citizen services by district administration through automation of workflow, back end digitization, integration and process redesigning across participating sections/departments for providing services in a most efficient manner to the citizens.

Our picture of racial and ethnic disparities in the health of older Americans is strongly influenced by the methods of collecting data on race and ethnicity. At one level there is a good deal of consistency in data collection. Most Americans and most researchers have in mind a general categorical scheme that includes whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and American Indians. Most Americans and nearly all researchers are also aware that these general categories disguise significant heterogeneity within each of these major groups. To the extent possible, recent research has attempted to identify and compare subgroups within each of the major racial and ethnic groups, making distinctions by country of origin, nativity, and generation within the United States. Most researchers generally agree that these categories are primarily social constructions that have changed and will continue to change over time.

Once we begin to explore more deeply the ways in which data on the elderly population are collected, however, we discover inconsistency across data sets and time. Part of this variation is from inconsistency in the way that Americans think and talk about race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity are words that carry heavy intellectual and political baggage, and issues surrounding racial and ethnic identities are often contested within and across groups. The debate over racial and ethnic categories prior to the 2000 Census is one of the most recent, but by no means the only, example of these contests. Several advocacy groups pressured the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to revise its racial and ethnic categories and data collection schemes (see Farley, 2001, and Rodriguez, 2000, for discussions of the controversies). This resulted in several significant changes, including the most well-known change, which allowed individuals to choose more than one racial category in the 2000 Census. Although most national and many local data collection efforts follow the federal guidelines, they vary in the way in which questions are constructed and in the order in which they appear in the questionnaire or interview schedule. Such seemingly trivial differences in measurement lead to different distributions of responses about racial and ethnic identity (Hirschman, Alba, and Farley, 2000).

Another inconsistency that has troubled health researchers is the collection of racial and ethnic data using different criteria across data sources. A good example of this is the mismatch between self-selected race (which is used in most data sets) and the observer-selected race that is often used for death certificates. Comparisons between next-of-kin racial identifications and death certificates have shown that a large proportion of, for example, black Hispanics are misidentified on death certificates. This leads to a significant overestimate of their life expectancy because the race-specific mortality rates are inaccurate (Swallen and Guend, 2001).

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the implications of how we measure racial and ethnic identity for our understanding of racial and ethnic disparities in health, especially among the elderly.1 We focus on the official classifications used to produce statistics on the health status of the elderly, and because self-identification is the fundamental tool used to assign individuals to the official categories, we explore factors associated with self-identification.2 Although we emphasize identification and classification involving the elderly, much of what we have to say applies to other age groups as well. We first look at what the social science literature has to say about the ways in which individuals and society construct racial and ethnic identities. Second, we examine how information on race and ethnicity is recorded in some of the major federal data sets used to study health disparities among the elderly. We then discuss some of the major problems in our national system of collecting and reporting on health disparities. We conclude with some recommendations for achieving greater consistency in the collection and reporting of racial and ethnic information.

The work of Franz Boas shifted the model describing racial and ethnic differences from one stressing biology to one that focused on cultural differences (Cornell and Hartmann, 1998). This shift implied that racial and ethnic groups were dynamic rather than static. These paradigmatic changes influenced the work on race in the emerging Chicago School of Sociology, which led to an assimilationist model of racial and ethnic identities (Cornell and Hartmann, 1998). In this model, the inherent flexibility of racial and ethnic identities would eventually lead to the assimilation of distinctive racial and ethnic minority groups into the mainstream culture. However, developments in the middle of the 20th century, such as strengthening ethnic and racial conflicts, forced social scientists to reconsider the question of racial and ethnic identities.

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