Chandigarh Administration has put the process of Birth and Death registration on Hi-tech track. Adviser to the Administrator Vijay Dev on Tuesday launched online facility of Birth and Death Registration.
With the launch of online facility, Certificates of will now be issued by individual institutions. To begin with, the facility has been rolled out in PGI, GMCH 32, Civil Hospital Sector 22, GMSH 16 and Civil Hospital Manimajra as they account for 80% of the birth and death events. These institutions will be responsible for issuing all the new Birth and Death certificates, addition of baby name and the corrections in the certificates, if any.
The objective of the launch is to decentralize the work in order to ensure that timely registrations are done so that the certificates can be provided to the citizens in time. The online system will also ensure that the birth registration of the new born is complete before the mother is discharged from the hospital so that the parents can walk away from the hospital with the certificate in hand.
Bhupesh Chaudhary, Assistant Commissioner said, “This initiative will reduce the rush in the office of Birth and Death registrar Sector 17 and at the same time will provide convenience to the citizens. As an added advantage, citizens can now take any number of copies of the certificates from their homes without having to visit the office of Birth and Death registrar. Another feature of the online system is that the all the certificates have a unique Quick Response Code (QR code) printed on them through which the authenticity of each certificate can easily be validated. This will also stop any incidents of forgery or counterfeit certificates”.