690 pending applications related to birth and death certificates disposed off

The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) disposed off a total of 690 applications related to birth and death certificates in the four day-day drive to clear pending applications that was held between October 14 and October 17.

Clearing of applications related to birth and death certificate was among the work that got affected because of deputation of MCC officials for Special Intensive Revision exercise. Following return of the officials on October 11, MCC Commissioner Rahul Rathnam Pandey decided to hold separate drive between October 14 and 17 to clear pending applications related to birth and death certificates and also for clearing applications related to e-khata.

As many as 100 applications related to birth certificates were disposed on October 14. It included 90 applications related to correction in birth certificate, and 10 related to issuance of new birth certificate. On October 15, 168 applications related to correction in birth certificate, and 10 related to issuance of death certificate were disposed. On October 16, 161 applications for birth certificate correction, 50 new birth certificates and 10 new death certificates were processed.

On October 17, the last day of the drive, 169 applications for birth certificate correction, two new birth certificates and 20 new death certificates were processed.

Mr. Pandey told The Hindu that as many as 217 people took appointment using the link given by the MCC and collected the birth certificates in person. Others can collect their birth and death certificates by visiting the MCC’s birth and death certificates’ cell at the MCC head office, he said.