Simplified form for death, birth
Lengthy applications for several essential services like birth or death certificates will soon be simplified and converted into one-page form formats, the government announced on Friday.
Lengthy applications for several essential services like birth or death certificates will soon be simplified and converted into one-page form formats, the government announced on Friday.
Union minister Jitendra Singh made this announcement on the occasion of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birthday, which is also observed by the NDA government as “Good Governance Day.”
Mr Singh unveiled a single-page application form for pensioners, and said, “for different schemes you have voluminous forms. Today, we are releasing one-page application form for pensioners. We plan to convert all multi-page or voluminous forms to single-page within a year,” he told reporters during a press conference on Friday.
The minister for personnel and public grievances said the aim behind this initiative is to make the forms as simple and small as possible for the beneficiary. “There should be relevant and minimum information asked for in an application form for government services and not repetitive ones,” he added. Mr Singh said he is coordinating with state governments and Union territories to replicate the same process.
“Every month we will be holding meetings with at least two Central government departments and reviewing forms available for different services under them. Efforts will be to simplify the whole procedure and we hope to achieve the target of single-page form for all government services within a year’s time,” he informed.
At present, one has to fill lengthy forms for getting birth, death and other certificates. Secretary in personnel ministry Sanjay Kothari said the government plans to integrate aadhaar number with government services so that people do not have to fill out whole details. “We will be integrating aadhaar data base for the services,” he said.