In a country like India, caste and religion are primary factors associated with any person. Both parameters are given a lot of importance and they have been a cause of several issues leading up to intense damages as well. In all of this, a Vellore woman named Sneha Parthibaraja has successfully managed to get a 'no caste, no religion' identity for herself. Probably the only one in the country to have so, she was fighting a 9-year long battle in the court to get a certificate giving her an identity, without caste and religion. Her only identity remains is that of an Indian. Kids Have No Religion! 1.24 Lakh Students Leave Religion And Caste Column Empty While Seeking Admission In Kerala Schools.

Sneha, a resident of Tirupattur is a lawyer herself and ever since her childhood, her parents never believed in the concepts of caste and religion. The two columns were left blank in all her application forms and on February 5, it became official when she received the certificate from Tirupattur tahsildar T.S. Sathiyamoorthy, declaring that she had ‘no caste, no religion.' Sneha looks at it as a victory against her protests for the violence and injustice that goes on against the lower castes in the country

She started her fight in the year 2010 but all her efforts were going into vain until February 2019. She kept applying over and over again for the certificate and officials too were rejecting it for some reason or the other. In the year 2017, she decided to be extremely firm about her decision and justified her stance to the court. She had availed no government schemes or reservation which are based on castes. Kamal Haasan's 'No Caste' Stand Gets Trolled Thanks to An Old Video of Shruti Haasan.

Check Picture of Receiving Her 'No Caste, No Religion' Certificate

Talking about it she was quoted to The Hindu, "All my certificates have nil or are blank against the ‘caste’ and ‘religion’ columns. This includes my birth certificate and school certificates. They mention me as an Indian. But I started to realise that every application form I filled mandated enclosure of community certificate. So, I had to obtain a self-affidavit. It was only then that it occurred to me that I needed an identity that was sans caste and religion." She questioned that if people have caste and religion certificates, there should also be a certificate for those who do not want to embrace or be identified by it.

The officials in the court verified all her assertions. They checked her school and college documents and found they were indeed left blank. B. Priyanka Pankajam, Sub-Collector of Tirupattur gave the final nod to grant her the certificate.

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