The Times of India                  07.06.2013

Birth certificates of new-borns via courier soon

HYDERABAD: Henceforth, parents will get birth certificates of their new-borns at their doorstep by courier and that too free of cost. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to launch the facility to prevent parents from doing rounds of circle offices.

GHMC mayor Mohammed Majid Hussain on Thursday said the new system will be launched on June 10. According to him, digital birth certificates would be sent to the residence of new-borns through courier free-of-cost. As people in the twin cities were facing lot of inconvenience in obtaining birth certificates from circle/ward offices, it was decided to launch the facility, he said in an official release.

GHMC commissioner M T Krishna Babu said it would the first of its kind facility in the country. Regarding death certificates, he said procedures were being streamlining for issuing death certificates after thorough verification. "We will also send death certificates to the family members through courier free-of-cost. A condolence message will also be sent to the family members along with the certificate," he said in the release.