The News Bureau
Gone are those days when people in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits had to make tiresome rounds of offices to register the new born babies with the authorities.
On June 10, the GHMC has launched a project to deliver digital birth certificate to new parents at their doorstep. The authorities have successfully dispatched 2,000 digital birth certificates by June 25.
“This is first of its
With the new project in place, residents in the limits of GHMC need not make rounds of the hospital where their baby was born, the municipal ward office concerned and the dispatch section of the GHMC to receive the certificate.
The birth certificates would be sent by courier directly to the designated address free of cost, despatched twice a week. “The package will also contain details of the vaccination schedule for the baby,” said the official.
Currently, the service would be provided for the babies born in 101 hospitals, which have been sending the information to the GHMC online. Efforts were underway to bring the remaining hospitals into the online network.
The corporation has digitised 27 lakh birth and death records starting the yea