Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) The West Bengal government on Thursday announced the decision to strip the political heads of urban civic bodies such as municipal corporations and municipalities, and rural civic bodies like panchayats, of the authority to issue birth and death certificates. Announcing this at a press conference, Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Agarwal said henceforth only government officials will be authorised to issue birth and death certificates.“The state Health Department will distri…
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Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) The birth and death registration portal of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been partially closed to verify certificates issued during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) period, said KMC officials on Thursday.Insiders from the KMC said that during the SIR period, there was an abnormal rise in the number of applications for backdated birth and death certificates for the purpose of being used as supporting documents in the revision exercise.However, the sources said t…