Survival Nagaland (SN) has brought to light the practice of issuance of registration of birth certificates in Nagaland which had created huge controversy in Assam when birth certificates from Nagaland were the highest to have been produced during the National Register for Citizens (NRC).
Most of those who produced registration of birth certificates from Dimapur allegedly were persons who were from Karimganj and Kokrajhar districts.
According to a statement issued by SN, the Dimapur District Hospital issued a registration of birth certificate recently, for which it was not authorised to do so as per law. SN therefore asked under what Act has the hospital issued registration of birth certificate since it was not authorised?
SN described the procedure for applying and obtaining registration of birth certificate which had to be done through a legal process.
Further SN said as per RTI of the Chief Medical Officer and DMC office, outlet of Economic and Statistic Department, both had issued a total of 35,468 Birth Certificates during the past five years. It expressed deep fear on whether some had been issued to illegal immigrants without adopting procedure and verification.
In the light of rampant issuance of birth certificates that were liable for misuse, SN has demanded that the Economic and Statistics department make public the progress of NRC verification and also appealed to nortaries and lawyers not to entertain or endorse any affidavit from people whose antecedents were doubted.
SN further warned that it would be compelled to knock on the doors of justice if any government official was found involved or any other engaged in the black market racket of providing birth certificates obtained at random.