Now Getting Birth and Death Certificates in City Made Easy: Curbing Graft In GHMC

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has made easy the issuance of birth and death certificates in the wake of growing corrupt practices in the urban local body.

Now, people need not rush to the GHMC offices to submit the application for birth and death certificates. 

The civic body would issue the certificates in a week after the hospitals upload the valid details of births and deaths. The hospitals have been given a two-month time to upload the details. The new system has been launched recently and it was yielding good results.

Earlier, citizens used to go to the GHMC circle office to apply by submitting the certificate issued by the hospital, and then the medical officer used to approve the certificate. 

Now to



make it hassle-free, the civic body introduced a new system in which the details of the birth or death in hospitals are obtained, The hospitals will directly send the details of birth or death to the GHMC online and then the civic body will approve the certificates in one week.

When the birth or death certificate is ready, applicants will get a text message to their registered mobile number. Soon after receiving the message, people go to their nearest Mee-Seva centers and procure the copy. 

With the introduction of this new system, people need not go to the circle offices or Mee-Seva to apply for the certificates. The hospitals will directly send the details to the GHMC in case of birth or death at hospitals and if the details are clear the medical officer will issue the certificate.