Team Herald
PANJIM: With civil marriage registration going online from Monday, the marriage records henceforth would be maintained in electronic format.
The State government is also in process of digitising marriage records post 2010 for making it available online. Currently, the records from 1914 to 2010 are made digitised.
The government on Monday launched online marriage registration system in order to ease out the process. The launch was held in the presence of Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant and Minister for Law Nilesh Cabral.
The department has said that all the applications pertaining to registration of marriage will be accepted and processed online only without requiring the applicant to physically submit a copy of the application or associated supporting documentation.
The applicant can visit the website www.goa.gov.in and enter the required details.
The Sub-Registrar offices are instructed to process applications through online mode only.
The applicants to make online payment of registration fees and thereafter may avail the facility of generating appointment date and time through the system.
In case of Canonical marriage, parish priest certificate and letter from the Church has to be uploaded.