বাঙ্গালী জাতির গৌরবময় ইতিহাস, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, স্বাধীনতা ও সার্বভৌমত্ব এবং জাতীয় সংস্কৃতির জন্য অপমানজনক কোনকিছু এই ব্লগে লেখা যাবে না।

The Dhaka City Corporation will launch computerised birth and death registration to smoothen and facilitate immediate issuance of certificates from February 11. To start the work, the corporation has already installed the software at all its 10 zonal offices. 'The installation of the software will be completed by February 10 and we would be able to provide the service from February 11,' said an official of the birth and death section of the corporation. Abu Jafar Md Illius, record keeper of the section said, 'Earlier it took at least three months to issue a certificate. It will come down to 20 days.' The corporation is also providing training to the staffs concerned to handle the computerised registration system, said Illius. There is no fee required for birth registration if it is done within two years of birth and a fine of Tk 10 will be charged for each year after two years of birth. Currently the charges for a birth or death certificate are Tk 50 English or Bangla, however, in the computerised version Bangla certificates would cost Tk 40 and Tk 100 for English. The corporation will charge Tk 20 for any corrections. However, there are allegations against the corporation's birth-death section officials that they take bribes of at least Tk 400 to Tk 2,000 to issue a certificate. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 2004 has come into force since July 4 2006. The city corporations, municipalities, union councils and cantonment boards are responsible for births and deaths registration in the country while births and deaths of Bangladeshis abroad will be registered by the Bangladesh missions in the respective countries. At present, births of more than 90 per cent of the country's total population remain unregistered, according to a survey. The government has set a target to register all births by 2008. Although birth registration had been made mandatory in the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1873, it has not been implemented. Development partners, international agencies and non-governmental organisations including the Unicef, European Commission, the government of Netherlands and Plan-Bangladesh are providing the government with financial and technical support for the registration programme. Birth certificates will be mandatory for admission to educational institutions, appointment in government, non-government and autonomous bodies, issuance of passport and driving licenses, enrolment in voters' roll and land registration. The chief executive officer of the corporation, M Saifuddin Ahmad, told New Age on Sunday, 'To get the birth certificate, people could go to the zone offices and for death certificate they need to come to the Nagar Bhaban.' All processes will be completed within 15 to 20 days,' he said.