Hyderabad Floods: Students assured new certificates free of cost

Hyderabad: Assuring the students whose certificates got wet or lost due to the incessant rains would now get new ones assured the the authorities including commissioner of school education, intermediate, collegiate and technical education.

The students are asked to apply for the certificates either online or offline.

The students can directly approach the education department either online or offline. The link to apply for the certificate is yet to made available. Unlike, always the students who lost their certificates, were asked to lodge a complaint with the police to trace the certificates and then the respective boards would issue the new ones.

Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy said that those who lost them will be given new ones at free of cost. The students are requested to approach the board to get the new certificates.

Several lost their mark sheets and certificates after rainwater entered their houses and brought the issues to the notice of the minister. Taking it into consideration, special chief secretary of education Chitra Ramachandran on Tuesday. The officials also said that they have received several representations complaining that they either lost their certificates or damaged.