Deccan Herald 11.02.2014
‘e-transfer’of birth certificates begins in City
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)
has introduced ‘e-transfer’, a first-of-its-kind initiative that hastens
issue of birth certificates. Similarly, death certificates can be
obtained by blood relatives of the deceased within three days.
This
move will allow parents to get digitally signed birth certificates at
Palike-registered hospitals on the same day of the birth. Around 1,480
private hospitals in the City have already been given passwords and
hospital staff are being trained in software handling and data
transmission. The certificates will also be available at 90 BangaloreOne
centres.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Joint Director for
Statistics of Palike, Shankarappa, said: “The online registration system
available on the Palike website was earlier limited to the civic
agency, but now it has been extended to hospitals. Hospital authorities
can access the portal and enter details through the unique password
given to them by the Palike. The details entered would be verified by
Palike officials and the event is registered immediately at the
registration centres.”
print of the certificate and send it to hospitals, through the
e-transfer server. The certificates will then be issued to parents
before they leave hospitals and clear the bills, he added.
Shankarappa
maintained that on a pilot basis, the software was being used at some
hospitals such as Manipal Hospital, MS Ramaiah Hospital, Sagar Apollo,
among others for the last one and a half years. Directions have been
issued to all the hospitals coming under Palike limits to issue
certificates using the new facility. Each certificate is preprinted with
a serial number, State and Central governments emblems, 24-digit
security code and a BBMP emblem watermark to prevent the misuse of the
certificates, he added.
Registration centres
Palike
Commissioner M Lakshminarayana who was present at the meet, said: “The
BBMP is the first in India to introduce the issue of birth and death
certificate with digital signatures at hospitals. There are a total of
27 registration centres in the City. Apart from that, five major
hospitals such as Vanivilas Women and Children Hospital, Victoria
Hospital, Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, Gosha Hospital and KC
General Hospital have been declared registration Centres.”
The
commissioner added that even a foreign national staying in the city
could avail the facility. “In the BBMP area around 1.6 lakh birth events
and around 50,000 deaths events are being registered every year,” he
said.
The online registration system will be available to hospitals on the website- http://sasbbmp.com/birthdeath.
