January 21 last date to register child’s name in GVMC’s birth register

Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) connected Monday (January 19) issued the 3rd and last telephone to parents to registry their child’s sanction successful the commencement registry by January 21.

GVMC commissioner Ketan Garg clarified that this notification applies to cases wherever the commencement was antecedently recorded successful the GVMC register, but the child’s sanction had not been entered. According to authorities guidelines, if a kid is implicit 15 years aged and their sanction is inactive missing from the register, the parents indispensable enactment immediately.

“Parents residing wrong the GVMC limits indispensable implicit this process by January 21. From January 22, determination volition beryllium nary further accidental to registry the names of children older than 15 years,” Mr. Ketan Garg said.

Eligible parents are advised to sojourn the Birth Registration Officers astatine their respective GVMC Zonal Offices with supporting documents to utilie this last opportunity, helium added.

Under Indian law, a commencement certificate without a sanction is incomplete and volition not beryllium accepted for indispensable ineligible and societal purposes. It is simply a “breeder document” indispensable for obtaining a passport, Aadhaar card, elector ID, driving licence and PAN card. It is indispensable for proving parentage successful cases of inheritance, spot claims and for legally registering a marriage, the GVMC officials said.

A GVMC authoritative said that nether the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, parents tin registry a commencement without a sanction initially. “However, the instrumentality mostly allows lone 15 years from the day of registration to adhd the name. Many individuals missed this model successful the past. To code this, the authorities has periodically extended deadlines to let older entries to beryllium completed. So, if the kid is older than 15 and their sanction is yet to beryllium entered successful the authoritative GVMC records, the parents indispensable sojourn a GVMC Zonal Office by January 21 to finalise the registration and debar imperishable exclusion.”