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Employees work on holiday

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Birth, death and marriage registration section functioned on Sunday

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A section of employees in the city Corporation relinquished yet another holiday on Sunday to process and dispose of pending applications for birth, death and marriage certificates.

As many as 30 staff members of the section for registration of birth and death turned up to clear the work backlog and compensate for the mandays lost due to the many public holidays this month.

“We had around 3,000 pending applications for birth, death and marriage certificates. That is why the Kerala Municipal Corporation Staff Union (KMCSU) issued a call to the employees to give up a holiday for the benefit of the public. The staff in this section had turned up for work during holidays and second Saturdays on previous occasions, especially during school reopening time,” said Sub-Registrar, Birth and Death Registration and KMCSU State general secretary K. Jayadevan.

An official release issued by the Corporation said here on Sunday that around 2,000 applications for birth, death and marriage registration were processed from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. The statement said the newly processed birth and death certificates would be issued in the coming days.

Mr. Jayadevan said there was a surge in the applications for birth certificate ever since it was made compulsory by the Central government for applying for passports. “The Central government had issued this order some six months back, making it compulsory for people born after 1989 to produce their birth certificates while applying for passports. Since then, there has been a steep increase in applications for birth certificates at the Corporation office,” Mr. Jayadevan said. He said there was also an increase in the number of applications for marriage certificate in recent times.

He said that birth and death registration kiosks set up by the civic body in hospitals in the city had speeded up the process of issuing certificates.

]With this facility, births and deaths taking place in a hospital can be registered right from there through these computerised kiosks.

Health officer D. Sreekumar supervised the works, while Deputy Mayor V. Jayaprakash visited the section on Sunday.

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