The corporation has urged government to extend the relaxation AP Registration of Births Rules 1999. | EPS file photo
Persons born in the city over 15 years ago and not having their
names in the birth registers of the GHMC though they were registered
can now have their names entered in the records. The relaxation of rule,
which had expired on August 13, 2011, will be in force till December
31, 2014.
A large number of parents are approaching the GHMC for
inclusion of their children’s names in birth certificates. In
particular, professionals settled abroad are seeking inclusion of the
names of their wards aged beyond 15 years for Green Card or immigration
purpose.Usually, a child’s name is not immediately entered in birth
registers as it is customary for Indians to wait for an auspicious day
to perform the naming ceremony. Thus, hospitals register only the name
of the mother. Hence the missing of the child’s name in records.
GHMC
officials told Express that in view of the difficulties experienced by
citizens, the corporation has urged government to extend the relaxation
AP Registration of Births Rules 1999.The deputy registrar-general, New
Delhi informed the government that at the time of introduction of the
revamped system in 2000, many states made the provision of reckoning the
period of 15 years in case of those events which were registered prior
to the rules coming into force.
In January this year the chief
registrar of births and deaths sought permission for allowing entry of
the names of children in birth records prior to the period of issue of
the AP Registrations of Births and Deaths Rules 1999 for a period period
of two years as one-time exception.
In view of the above
circumstances, the government accorded permission to the chief registrar
of births and deaths and the director of public health and family
welfare for registering the names of children whose names could not be
entered in the birth registers prior to the period of promulgation of AP
Registrations of Births and Deaths Rules, 1999.
Municipal
commissioner MT Krishna Babu said citizens can enrol their wards’ names
in birth certificates if they have crossed the age of 15 years.
