New Delhi: If you face a problem during the verification of a birth or death certificate issued by the erstwhile east or north Delhi corporation between 2012 and 2023, you need to download the document again. This is because the old certificates are now invalid. Downloading the new ones won’t cost you any money.In a public notice, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said, “Earlier, birth certificates were issued under the same registration number across the former corporations — north, south and east. To ensure each certificate now carries a unique registration number, necessary corrective measures have been implemented, and revised ones have been issued. In case of any difficulty during verification, people are advised to download the latest certificates from the official portals https://mcdonline.nic.in or https://rbd.mcdonline.nic.in and use them for verification purposes, as only updated certificate will be treated as valid.“From 2012 to 2022, there were three municipal corporations in Delhi before the Centre re-merged all three into MCD. Till 2020, a private IT company used to operate the MCD portal. In 2020, the corporation handed over this task to National Informatics Centre (NIC), which launched a new platform for all the three civic bodies.“After this, all the three started using the NIC portal to generate their registration numbers, some of which were later found to bear the same numbers. The issue was pointed out recently when admissions began in Delhi govt schools under the EWS category. Instances were brought to our notice by the education department where a child born in east Delhi was found to have background details of, say, south Delhi as registration numbers were the same. Accordingly, we have issued the public notice,” said an MCD official, adding that the issue was prominently reported in case of certificates issued between 2020 and 2023.“We have updated the registration numbers by adding the suffix ‘N’ to those issued by the north corporation and ‘E’ to the ones issued by the erstwhile east corporation. The south corporation’s certificates will continue to bear the same numbers,” the official said.The new records will appear on the website in place of the old ones. One needs to download and submit the new certificates while applying for insurance, school admissions or other purposes.From 2020 to 2022, 9 lakh registrations were recorded. Of these, 95% were from the MCD area. The rest were from NDMC and Delhi Cantonment areas. According to the annual birth and death certificate report issued by the statistics department, 3,00,350 birth certificates were issued in Delhi in 2022; 2,71,786 in 2021 and 3,01,645 in 2020.
