Birth certificates for refugees in TN

Sri Lanka's Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai and the Tamil Nadu Government have jointly organized mobile consular services to provide assistance to Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu.

Among the services offered at these special camps are issue of birth certificates and registration for Sri Lankan citizenship. The special camp organized in Tamil Nadu will issue birth certificates to 238 children of six refugee camps on Saturday and Sunday, Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner in Southern India, Vadivel Krishnamoorthy said.

A similar camp organized in Madurai saw 251 out of 303 applicants getting birth certificates of their children on the day of submitting the application. "The certificates for the rest are now ready," said Krishnamoorthy. Such camps would be conducted in every district wherever there were refugee camps.

"This (birth certificate issued by Sri Lankan Government) is an important document which every child born (to Sri Lankan parents) overseas should possess to return to the motherland," Krishnamoorthy said.