The Hindu    28.07.2012

Corporation issues over 9,000 certificates in seven months

Staff Reporter

The health department of the city municipal corporation
has issued 9,675 birth, death and name registration birth certificates
in the past seven months at the civic body main office.

Issued

Officials
at the health department said that between January and July, 3,118
birth certificates, 763 death certificates and 5,794 name registration
birth certificates were issued apart from certificates issued at the
four zonal offices in Suramangalam, Hasthampatti, Kondalampatti and
Ammapet.

On receiving the application, it is
scrutinised on the spot, defects rectified and registration done.
Certificates are then dispatched through post to the applicants within
two days, added officials.

Introduced

This
system was introduced in March this year. Earlier, the system was that
applications were received, scrutinised the next day, queries then
intimated to the applicants, necessary documents received and
certificates finally issued.

As there were complaints
galore from the public that issue of certificates takes between 10 and
20 days time, the new system was introduced to enable applicants to
receive certificates within two days of submitting their application.

Moving
towards e-governance, residents will soon be able to download birth and
death certificates at the corporation’s website as uploading of more
data pertaining to birth and death events between 1981 and 2011 is being
carried out and expected to be completed soon.

Once completed, downloading certificates would be easy and free of cost.

Applications are received, scrutinised and registered after defects are rectified