If you are among those running from pillar to post to get birth or death certificates, relief may be at hand. The BBMP is planning to introduce measures to ensure that these certificates are issued within an hour of a birth or death being recorded at hospitals.

Over the past two years, the BBMP had been issuing birth/death certificates at its 27 registration centres.

BBMP officials say they have developed a unique ‘E-transfer’ software that links hospitals to these centres to help speed up the registration process.

In the planned system, hospital officials have to upload details of new births or deaths within 30 minutes of the incident. A BBMP official said this information will be immediately transferred to the registration centre. Here, the staff will be required to issue a birth or death certificate in the next half-an-hour, which will then be collected by the respective hospitals.