One of the decisions taken by the then Digambar Kamat government after assuming office in 2007 was to return all the births and deaths records from the Archives to the taluka Sub-Registrar offices. The reason was simple: That people from the far away talukas had to travel all the way to Panjim to collect birth and death certificates since the records were shifted to the Archives for their maintenance. Kamat had announced around that time that the government would simultaneously take up the work of preserving the records, but in vain.
Sources said that the government is seriously toying with an idea to call all the mutilated births, death and marriage records from the taluka mamlatdars back to the Archives.
When contacted, Law Minister Francis D’Souza told Herald that such a proposal was discussed at a meeting held recently, but said that a number of things need to fall in place before taking a final call.
Sources said the Department of Archives is closely working to procure software wherein records of births and deaths recorded on CDs will be handed over to the taluka Sub-Registrar’s offices for issuing copies to the applicants. In most probability, the records will be called to the Archives once the software is procured by the government, sources added.
