The Hindu 30.01.2010
More birth, death records to be computerised
Special Correspondent
| Resolution adopted at monthly ordinary meeting |
A total of 1,44,201 recordings will be undertaken
It has been proposed to set up an information centre
VELLORE: The Vellore Corporation has decided to computerise all records pertaining to births which took place in its limits from 1982 to 1991 and the deaths that occurred from 1985 to 1994.
A resolution was adopted at the monthly ordinary meeting of the Corporation Council held under the presidentship of P. Karthikeyan, Mayor of Vellore, here on Thursday.
The resolution said that the birth records from 1992 to 2009 and death records from 1995 to 2009 have already been computerised. A total of 1,44,201 recordings pertaining to births which took place from 1982 to 1991 and deaths which occurred from 1985 to 1994 have to be computerised. The Corporation Council approved the sanction of a sum of Rs.3 lakh to computerise the records.
K.R. Selvaraj, Corporation Commissioner, said that the Corporation has proposed to set up an information centre in its office to guide the public who came to obtain birth and death certificates. Responding to the complaint from K. Srinivasa Gandhi (Congress), 25th ward councillor, that the Corporation staff sought a certificate on the cause of death even for natural deaths from applicants for death certificates, the Commissioner said that seeking such a certificate was proper.
On the complaints of stray cattle menace leading to accidents in Vellore, the Commissioner said that the Corporation would arrange for removal of stray cattle weekly.
N.A. Balasundaram (Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam), 11th ward councillor, said that the discharge of human faeces from the latrines in the houses into the drainage canals in his ward posed a serious mosquito menace. He urged the Corporation to ask the owners of houses without septic tanks to construct such tanks in order to avoid mosquito menace. The Mayor said that this problem would not arise once work on the underground drainage scheme was completed.
Mr. Gandhi said that garbage collected from six wards was dumped in the 25th ward. The garbage was not removed regularly in view of the severe shortage of sanitary workers in his ward. The Corporation should arrange to remove garbage regularly, he said.
Mr. Karthikeyan said that women’s self-help groups (SHGs) could be used to clear the garbage in wards. Mr. Gandhi said that women’s SHGs were not fit to undertake such work, but men’s SHGs could be used for the same.
