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MARGAO
Functioning of the Salcete Sub-registrar Office dealing with the issuance of birth certificates has virtually come to a halt once again, leaving Saxttikars in the lurch.
Acute manpower shortage has hit the issuance of birth certificates as a result of which applications have been piling up since the last fortnight.
While Law Minister Nilesh Cabral is reportedly aware of the manpower crunch affecting the Salcete Sub registrar office, Saxttikars are hoping that the Law Minister will take up the issue with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who also holds the portfolio of Planning and Statistics, and give relief to the hundreds of applicants waiting for days now to lay their hands on their birth certificates.
Officials of the Salcete Sub registrar office have been trying to manage the situation, but in vain. The problem is attributed to the staff shortage and issue pertaining to the
department of Planning & Statistics.
Sources in the know informed that the trouble started around a fortnight ago when the contract of the data operators engaged in the issuance of birth certificates expired.
With the five data operators staying away from work for want of renewal of their contract and the department of Planning & statistics not deputing additional staff here, issuance of birth certificates has virtually come to a halt since the last 15 days.
Salcete Sub registrar, Domingo Pereira has expressed his helplessness in getting the work done from the skeletal staff manning his office, with around 150 applications being received by his office on a daily basis and has already sent an SOS to the head office to take up the matter with the department of Planning & Statistics on an urgent basis.
Sources in the know pointed out that a similar situation had arisen during the tenure of former CMs Laxmikant Parsekar and Manohar Parrikar, both holding the department of Planning and Statistics and Law presided over by late Francis D’Souza.
Officials pointed out that work of the issuance of birth certificates falls in the domain of the department of Planning and Statistics, but the certificates are being issued from the office of Sub registrars for the sake of convenience.
