system it would have been possible for a candidate to obtain two different EWS Certificates verifying the income at two different levels by approaching the relevant Department with two different sets of affidavits at two different dates. With the launch of the said portal this possibility has been completely pre-empted. There is a unique Family ID for every family and the verified annual income of every family for every year is available in the State level database. The moment a candidate applies for EWS Certificate on the SARAL portal, it fetches the income and caste data from the said database. There is no scope for the competent authority (Tehsildar or NailbTehsildar etc.) to make any change to the verified income of the previous year. Therefore, in this system, the candidate may generate his certificate in any of the months. Many candidates who submitted the EWS certificate issued after the last date of submission of application might not have been aware of the newly launched portal by Haryana Government and consequently, they may not have been able to generate their own EWS Certificate in time. It is, therefore, requested that the EWS Certificate generated after the last date for the candidates referred to at 1 (iii) above may also be accepted because they truly capture the actual verified income for the previous year. It is further added that no cut-off date need be fixed for the purpose of Caste Certificate of candidates of reserved category because caste stays the same at all times. Similarly, the verified family income of the candidates residing in Haryana is available in the database on an annual basis at all times and remains unchanged for a particular period in the financial year. Therefore, the mere fact of submission of EWS Certificate which was issued after the cut off date cannot legally
