Tehsildar & Taluka Executive Magistrate Nitinkumar Rajaram Deore instructs Resident Naib Tehsildar Sandeep Dharankar for a large-scale rollout of the birth and death registration project. While staff Deva Patil listens with intent. (Pic: The Voice of Malegaon)
Now you can get an order for birth and death registration from Tehsildar if your records with your local body are not traceable or there has been a delay on your part in doing the same. Earlier, the courts were competent authority to issue such order but of late the burden of this work has been taken off their shoulders.
Tehsildar Nitinkumar Deore said District Magistrate IAS Jalaj Sharma has authorised all the fifteen Executive Magistrates (Tehsildars) in Nashik district to take up the project on a large scale. With this, citizens who were facing hardships as regards birth and death registration will heave a big sigh of relief.
“This new arrangement has been put in place after the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023 recently came into effect,” Deore told The Voice of Malegaon. He added in the amended Act under Section 13 (Sub-Section 2 & 3) the District Magistrate, a Sub-Divisional Magistrate and an Executive Magistrate all have been made competent authority to issue such order.
Tehsildar Deore has appealed citizens not to fall prey to the lure of the middlemen and agents for getting an order for birth and death registration. “They can do this work by themselves or hire the services of an advocate. Earlier, the citizens had to shell out Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 for getting an order from the court. Now they can get this work done by paying the prescribed government fee,” he said.
Form D for order for birth registration
Tehsildar went on to explain that those who want to get an order for registration of birth can fill Form D mentioned in the Appendix B. “This form has been made available in the Setu branch at the Tehsil office,” Deore said.
Form P for order for death registration
Similarly, those who want to get an order for registration of death can fill Form P which has been made available at the Setu branch. Remember that for getting these orders, citizens are required to submit certain documents which we are listing out in the next pointer.
Form N for affidavit by parents
This form is for either one of the parents who can give in writing that for some reasons the registration of their kid could not be done at the time of their birth. In all the above forms, the applicant needs to affix his passport size photograph.
Documents required
Tehsildar Nitinkumar Deore listed out a number of documents citizens should furnish for getting these orders. He said after a thorough scrutiny and an enquiry the order will be issued. The following documents are necessary;
- Application in the prescribed format
- Affidavit
- ‘Record Not Found’ certificate from Gram Panchayat, Municipal Council or Municipal Corporation
- Notice (given in a newspaper) Or
- Village notice
- Affidavit from a senior citizen in the village
- Enquiry report from Gram Sevak, Talathi, Municipal Corporation (if required)
