Mangalore, September 19:- "Birth Certificates must be issued through digital signatures in the district" Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) M.J. Roopa said.
Speaking at a District Level Coordination Committee Meeting on birth and death registration held at the district office on Friday September 18.
"In rural areas, village accountants are Registrars, Government Medical Officer, Primary Community Health Center and Doctors in Taluk District Hospitals are Sub-Registrars.
Now in the Municipal Corporation Health inspectors are registrar, municipality, town panchayat and notified areas Health Supervisors are Registrars.
Government doctors are the Sub-registrars of government hospitals in the city's local bodies, they must adopt the digital 'Key". Birth death certificates must be issued via a digital signature. She suggested that the palm signature should be reduced as much as possible.
Panchayat Development Officers have been appointed as Birth and Death Certificates as per the government order. Appropriate training for all PDOs at Taluk level, there should be widespread publicity regarding it." she said
"According to statistics, it has found that the registration of birth and death certificates are being delayed in the city's towns and cities. To prevent this, all Taluk Tahsildar's should visit the office of the Registrar and Sub Registrar. Every documents should be thoroughly reviewed."
"In each taluk, a coordinating committee meeting should be convened and discussuion regarding delayed registration should be held," said the ADC.
District number collector Uday Shetty said that in 2020 from January to August, 18,824 births and 10,139 deaths were registered in the city's urban and rural areas.
Assistant Commissioner Madan Mohan and Urban Development Planning Director Gayatri Nayak were present at the meeting.