The New Indian Express 12.08.2010
BBMP launches online registrations
BANGALORE: Long waits and lengthy queues will be a thing of the past as BBMP has implemented online birth and death registration and issuing of certificates at no additional cost.Express had reported on December 12, 2009 that the system would rid all the hurdles of procuring the documents which consumed a considerably longer time earlier. “This project of the BBMP will enable people to procure birth and death certificates within a matter of a few minutes,” Shankarappa, joint director for statistics of the BBMP said.
He said that people had to just visit any of the BBMP Citizen Service Centers to get the certificates. He said that the service would soon be extended to Bangalore- One centers.
With the new system, hospitals would have to enter all the data into the system and then the same would have to be transferred to BBMP through e-transferring with the help of a digital signature that would be made available by BBMP. The same would be immediately registered by the Medical Officer Health (MOH) and would be interlinked for access from any of the authorised centres.
“This will ensure that there is no mislink or loss of data,” he said and added that there have already been 64,000 online registrations of birth and 30,000 registrations of death.
Under the existing system, birth and death certificates remained with the BBMP sub-registrars (births and deaths) office for a year, after which they landed at the office of the joint director for statistics. If a person required the certificate he had to identify the jurisdiction under which the hospital (where the birth or death occurred) came and then collect it in person from the local BBMP office. This was done because the letter from the hospital did not have the same credibility as the certificates issued by the BBMP.
