MUMBAI, Sept. 4 -- A day after the state government agreed to implement the Hyderabad gazette, through a Government Resolution (GR), which would enable eligible Marathas in Marathwada get Kunbi certificates, paving their way into the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category, community members and experts have spotted loopholes in GR. After going through the fine print, they have claimed that the GR presents nothing new than the system already established to procure Kunbi certificates, based on records. They have also argued that the process of issuing the records mentioned in the gazette is no different from the one collated by the Justice Sandeep Shinde Committee in the last one year. Yogesh Kedar, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil's close aide, to whom the draft GR was shown by the cabinet sub-committee led by minister of water resources Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, before it was sent for government approval, revealed "flaws and discrepancies that would lead to hardship for generations to come, as there is no clarity in the process of issuing Kunbi certificates henceforth". Balasaheb Sarate Patil, one of the first petitioners for reservation for the community at the Bombay High Court around a decade ago, said: "I do not think going ahead this will help more than 5% Marathas get new certificates. Although the GR underlines the need for home inquiries to establish individual family trees, the exercise will help establish only residence proofs, not family lineage. All the new certificates issued in the last one year have been on the basis of the 58 lakh documents collated by the committee led by retired judge Sandeep Shinde." He added, the gazette does not contain family-specific information. Another Maratha quota petitioner, Vinod Patil, said that the GR has nothing new than what is in place in the revenue records (collated by the Shinde Committee). "Somebody needs to state things clearly. The GR says that the one who seeks a Kunbi certificate needs to have documents prior to October 1967 and that home inquiries by the revenue machinery will facilitate the issuance of the certificates. It is an established system - the GR simply puts it on paper." In order to cool down dissident voices, on Wednesday, Jarange-Patil stated that the GR was sacrosanct. "The records in the Hyderabad gazette will help Marathas in Marathwada to establish their Kunbi lineage. The three-member committee at the gram panchayat level will help even landless Marathas get Kunbi certificates by giving affidavits with declarations from landlords who have employed them. Some people working in the interest of the government have been spreading rumours to create rift between me and the community." Madhukar Ardad, former divisional commissioner, who worked in the Shinde Committee, said, "Implementation of the gazette will help Marathas get records from 1881 (when the caste census was done) and help procure more certificates."...