A new simpler process to obtain birth/death certificates
Posted on: 27/Dec/2018 12:09:03 PM
The Department of General Public Health is set to introduce a new scheme facilitating an easier, simpler, and quicker process to obtain the birth/death certificates in the government hospitals themselves thus preventing the wasteful travel and time expended by the public in this regard.
The Act regarding the registration of birth/death was introduced in the year 1969 and was implemented in 1970. From this period, the State Government Departments of Revenue and the Internal Administration Officers have been undertaking the responsibility of registering the birth/death certificates.
This task is handled by 16490 birth/death registration centres in the state.
In this scenario, there is a time-delay incurred in the issue of these birth/death certificates due to the excessive work-burden handles by the concerned officials. This has led to public complaints on the delay, unnecessary waiting while spending time and money and travel and also complaints regarding corruption have also been made.
In this situation, the Tamil Nadu State Government introduced a new system through a State Government Order, called ‘Civil Registration System’ where the birth/death registrations are done online.
With this introduction and implementation, it was established that from the various centres such as the Government Medical College Hospitals, the District Head Hospitals, Taluk Hospitals, and the Primary Health Centres, 65% births data and 19% death data had been registered.
