Authorities must provide correct birth and death certificates
Dhaka North City Corporation mayor, LGRD minister and other government high-ups on Friday expressed frustration towards the registrar general’s office over the sluggish birth and death registration server.
The birth and death registration server is not functioning properly.
In our country, 50 per cent of children are born in hospitals. However, not a single hospital has a birth registration server.
Taking initiative in this matter can go a long way in solving this crisis.
People almost everywhere in Bangladesh are suffering immensely in getting and correcting their birth certificates, mainly due to alleged irregularities, complex process of corrections, and lapses in the government data preservation system.
Many also blamed the inefficiency of the government employees concerned for mistakes in birth certificates prepared manually, as all the information provided by applicants was not properly uploaded online while a large number of people found their data missing from the national server.
Online birth registration has now been made mandatory for getting vital services like national identity cards, passports, Covid vaccinations and many other activities, including admissions at educational institutions.
A city corporation official had provided me with the wrong certificate even after taking Tk 1,000 as a bribe.
Currently, an individual in Dhaka has to go to the offices of city authorities and the office of the Deputy Director of Local Government to have their birth certificates corrected.
The government must employ human resources to accelerate birth and death registration systems across the country.
In the last few years, many services have been introduced; however, people hardly get any service like birth registration.
As birth registration is the basis for securing many relevant services, the government is urged to support the service providers.
There is enough infrastructure in the country, but the service delivery is in shortfall. Preparing human resources for providing better service delivery should get proper attention.
