The Hindu 23.07.2012
Corporation to issue birth and death certificates online soon
About 70 per cent of work on uploading data has been completed
Residents running from pillar to post to get birth or
death certificates will soon heave a sigh of relief as they will be able
to download the certificates from the City Municipal Corporation’s
website free of cost soon.
Till now the birth and
death certificates were issued only at the four zonal offices of the
corporation at Suramangalam, Hasthampatti, Kondalampatti and at Ammapet
or only at the corporation main office.
Currently
around 100 birth and death certificates are issued at the civic body
main office everyday, while 250 certificates are issued at the four
zones.
For the issue of certificates, the civic body charges a fee of Rs. 5 for the first copy and Rs. 7 for the second copy.
Certificates are also delivered to the applicant’s home within two days of submitting the application.
Uploading
the data of more than seven lakh birth and death events from 1981 to
2011 is being carried out with around 70 per cent of the work been
completed till date.
Uploading of the remaining data
is expected to take another two months time as test run would be carried
out before enabling the option for the public to download the
certificates.
For issue of birth certificates,
hospitals will submit details about time of baby birth, mother’s name
and other details through online, which will be validated by a health
officer and uploaded in the website.
People can enter the details and download the certificates and take a printout from any computer.
One
has to obtain certificate of burial or cremation from the divisional
sanitary inspector for natural death and later would be able to download
the death certificates.
In case of death due to
accidents, first information report (FIR) copy, autopsy report from the
hospital should be submitted to the civic body and upon verification,
the death certificates can be downloaded.
Carried out
as part of e-governance project, the initiative being implemented is
expected to reduce public complaints regarding late issue of
certificates, alleged corruption practices and prevent malpractices.
Corporation
Commissioner M. Ashokan said that this would bring in more efficiency
and transparency in the functioning of the civic body besides curbing
the activities of touts.