Chennai Corporation started issuance of fresh birth and death certificates
Posted on: 03/Dec/2013 12:01:11 PM
A couple of days back issuance of fresh birth and death certificates was suspended by Chennai Corporation when in unearthed some irregularities in issuing of certificates. Now the work on uploading and validating new birth certificates has resumed.
The civic body is planning to deny permission to all sanitary inspectors to access the new system for uploading and validating births and deaths in the 426 sq. km. of the city.
Only 46 sanitary officers are likely to be given the responsibility of uploading and validating the data. Access by other employees will not be permitted. The validation is done only after the hard copy of the registers from the hospitals is screened by public health department officials. The data in the fresh birth certificates should corroborate with registers maintained by the hospital after verification by the 46 sanitary officers. The bogus entry in birth and death certificates issued by the Corporation was easy because of access given to sanitary inspectors. Two officials were suspended last Tuesday for making bogus entries.
The suspended officials had allegedly misused the password to make entries in birth certificates, uploaded it and validated the fake certificates.
Process to be simplified
The Corporation will however take steps to simplify the process of issuing birth and death certificates to residents by streamlining operations.
The number of births registered in each zone ranges between 20 and 80 per day.Zones with major hospitals have a large number of births and deaths recorded per day.
