ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a significant development, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief secretary Muhammad Azam Khan has asked the additional chief secretary Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to direct all the political agents of FATA to make arrangements for the issuing of domicile certificates to both the male and female students in their respective schools with immediate effect.
The political agents of all the agencies in FATA would issue a school-based domicile to all the students of the 10th grade, like those studying in the settled districts of KP to ease the woes of the tribal students.
In this connection, the KP chief secretary directed that the practice of the issuance of school base domicile certificates shall start from February 1, and the progress report should be delivered for review on April 30.
It further said that the political agents of different agencies have to arrange proformas for the domicile certificate and distribute them to the students of class 10th through the agency education officer and the principals of different schools.
Every student will return the filled proforma along with a copy of B-form or detailed marks certificate of class 9th as a proof of date of birth, a CNIC copy of their father/guardian and an undertaking on a plain paper duly signed by the father/guardian of the student.
It was further said that the matter of attestation should be taken on a priority basis with the sole aim of ensuring ease to the students and their parents. The concerned principals should submit all the application forms for domicile certificates to the AEO who will submit the same further to the concerned political agent.
The concerned political agent would issue a domicile certificate to all the students who applied for it and should return the same to the concerned students via the AEO and principals.
It is pertinent to mention here that such practice of school-based domiciles is already in progress in all the districts of KP as directed by the chief secretary.
