Pune: Technical glitches in the updated centralised civil registration system (CRS) have hit the issuance of birth and death certificates across the state over the past few days, leaving applicants hassled. An official from one of the registration centres in Maharashtra said they were unable to issue certificates for three to four days because of glitches. “Citizens are peeved as they are doing rounds of registration offices for several days,” the official said.
According to the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, all reported births and deaths in the country occurring from Oct 1, 2023, have to be digitally registered through the Centre’s portal dc.crorgi.gov.
in/crs. Technical issues have been hampering the portal’s operations after it was updated four months ago. It affected all 43,774 registration units in the state.
Seema Kulkarni from the city gave birth to her daughter earlier this year. She has been regularly checking the status of the newborn’s birth certificate with the city registration office after applying online a month ago. “The system did not accept my registration initially.
Later, I re-submitted it with the help of an official. I am yet to receive the certificate. It has been more than a month,” she told TOI.
“We’ve raised this issue with the central govt. We hope the system will be streamlined for once and for all by next month,” an official from the state civil registration system office told TOI. Officials cited slow porta.