Eligibility certificate amendment power is confined to patent clerical or arithmetical errors, not disputed factual reappraisal.

Section 4A(3) permits the Commissioner to cancel or amend an eligibility certificate where there is misuse, legal or factual error, or breach of conditions, and that power must be read consistently with the appellate scheme under section 10(2). The Commissioner therefore is not wholly without authority to act on an eligibility certificate, but the jurisdiction is limited to patent clerical or arithmetical mistakes apparent on the record. It does not extend to disputed factual issues or debatable corrections requiring substantive reappraisal.

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Issues: Whether the Commissioner had jurisdiction under section 4A(3) to amend an eligibility certificate granted by the District Level Committee, and if so, whether that power extended to correcting only clerical or arithmetical errors apparent on the record.

Analysis: Section 4A(3), as amended, empowered the Commissioner to cancel or amend an eligibility certificate where there was misuse, a legal or factual error, or breach of conditions. The court read this power in harmony with the statutory appeal mechanism under section 10(2), which allowed an appellate forum to modify an eligibility certificate. On that basis, the Commissioner could not be said to lack all authority under section 4A(3). At the same time, the power was confined to patent errors, such as clerical or arithmetical mistakes, and did not extend to matters requiring disputed factual adjudication or debatable correction.

Conclusion: The Commissioner had limited jurisdiction to correct clerical or arithmetical errors apparent on the face of the record under section 4A(3), and the impugned order declining jurisdiction was unsustainable.

Final Conclusion: The writ petition succeeded, the impugned order was quashed, and the matter was sent back for fresh decision in accordance with the court's directions.

Ratio Decidendi: Where the statute expressly permits amendment of an eligibility certificate for legal or factual error, the power includes correction of patent clerical or arithmetical mistakes, but not debatable issues requiring substantive reappraisal.

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