The Chhattisgarh Government has directed ‘CHOICE Centers’ operational across the State to carry out free registration of reported births and deaths. A directive in this regard was issued by Additional Chief Secretary (Planning, Finance and Statistics) NK Aswal during the state-level meeting of inter-departmental committee held in the Mantralaya here.
Besides, the officer also directed private nursing homes and hospitals to compulsorily provide information about birth and death cases to their respective municipal corporations, municipal councils and Nagar panchayats. Meanwhile, Aswal also reviewed the progress of works pertaining to registration of births and deaths and directed officials concerned to speed up the works.
Aswal has also instructed officials to include review of birth-death registration work in monthly and quarterly review meeting of district panchayats.
Moreover, he has directed School Education Department to launch a special drive to expedite works related to making of birth certificates of children enrolled in schools.