Computerised system for registrations

Shirley Wijesinghe

COLOMBO: The Colombo District Secretariat plans to introduce new registration certificates for Births, Marriages and Deaths using modern Information Technology (IT) under the guidelines drawn by the Home Affairs Ministry.

Addressing a media conference at the Colombo District Secretariat to review the progress of the new processing system, Colombo District Secretary P.J.A. Sylvester said the public could receive their certificates of Births, Marriages and Deaths five minuets after completing the forms.

He said that more than 60,000 original certificates are stored at the 13 Divisional Secretariats and manually issuing them was a time consuming process.

Sylvester said even after implementing the new computer aided system, the originals will be preserved securely.

The new system was initially implemented in the Divisional Secretariats of Colombo, Thimbirigasyaya, Dehiwala, Ratmalana, and Moratuwa.

Sylvester said he was expecting to launch the new system on December 21 from the Colombo Divisional Secretariat.