The Dhaka North City Corporation, or DNCC, has moved to register births and deaths at each ward councilor’s office instead of its regional offices to ease public suffering and ease the process.
To do this, the DNCC sent a letter to the Office of the Registrar General, Birth and Death Registration, seeking a user ID and password for each ward secretary.
Officials said the registrar general’s office has agreed to the planned arrangement. It will hold a meeting with the DNCC on Tuesday to finalize the details.
At present, the registration is done in six of the 10 zonal offices of the Municipal Corporation.
Citizens have been complaining of difficulties in obtaining birth and death registrations for a long time. Councilors are demanding to take this program to their office, saying that if this service is done at the ward level, the problem will be less.
The DNCC sent the letter to the registrar’s office on November 29 after the city corporation approved the proposal in October.
For correction in birth or death certificate, citizens have to visit the Deputy Commissioner’s office. The DNCC has also asked the Registrar General’s office to take measures so that the Regional Executive Officer can make any corrections.
