In what may come as a
major relief to citizens, the government of India has decided to do away with
the necessity of filing affidavits from a gazetted officer or a notary for a
big chunk of government-related work and instead to promote self-attestation of
documents. The government may be congratulated for doing away with the
necessity of filing affidavits from a gazetted officer.
In this regard I would
like to be grateful to the Kerala Public
Service Commission for their clever decision
of doing away with attestation by gazetted officers years back. What is there
in attestation when the appointment of a candidate is done only after verifying
the certificates in originals? The novel
way of PSC, however, was not taken up by other public and private agencies causing
immense hardship to applicants. And with the present decision the government
has reduced the suffering of people especially from villages and remote areas.
The people who are
annoyed of this decision may be notary babus, nevertheless, a person attesting
his certificate is now himself responsible for any kind of fake information is
a brazen idea.
K A Solaman
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