Death certificate

What is the full form of ANM used by you ?

What is the status and position of said ANM in Panchayat ?

If you have applied for the Death certificate and paid such fees, and if a death certificate is not urgent and important, ignore it for one or two months.  Once you ask your certificate, individual at that level either suspects or wishes to extort some money and encash your urgency.   If you have made a police complaint or through panchayat, if police attended that savapanchayat etc., you need not worry.

Many things are hanging in suspense in the case.  How she has committed suicide?  How the body was treated during death rites?  Whether any postmortem was done or why police advised for taking such natural death certificate etc., In such cases, if the body was cremated, approach a local doctor and obtain a death certificate stating that she has died of natural cause and produce such certificate with your application for the death certificate.  A nurse can not question a doctor's certificate and mere suspicion is not enough to reject DC.

I think that the clause requiring the cause of death needs to be removed from death certificates. Even if the death is suspicious or criminal, the fact that the person is dead is not in question. Why insist on doctor's certificate? if five persons of nearby houses or relatives sign with their Aadhaar Number, the death is to be confirmed. That is what I feel.No doctor's certificate that it is natural death is also not accepted in most of the cases.

The present issue is how to get such a certificate under the existing norms without delay.

Is the problem relating to registration of death or getting death certificate?

Choudari garu, once Death is registered, they are bound to provide such Death certificate. First inquire at Burial ground and Panchayat Office whether death was registered or not.

You have not replied as to whether you have filed such an application and paid such fees.  If you have applied for such a certificate with such fees and if the death is registered, issue a simple Registered notice to the Secretary under CP Act and you can certainly get DC.

 Regd. Notice under CP Act.

Secretary,

Grama Panchayat,

...............

This applicant....................................s/o...................aged...............resident of House No...................at..............village has on....................(date) submitted application for death certificate for deceased Smt......................w/0....................expired on......................... and paid fees of Rs......................as consideration.

The death certificate has to be provided within 10 days maximum under Citizen charter.  In spite of regular visits, as the certificate was not provided this notice demanding for providing such death certificate within one week from date of receipt, failing which the complainant has to approach to District Consumer forum seeking remedies for harassment by the authorities and seeking compensation from the concerned official that was deliberately delaying the issue of the death certificate, violating laid down rules in Citizen Charter.

Complainant.

It appears there is some confusion whether the death has been registered. If so, who had given initimation to the Panchayat. And if it is that intimation is given and duly registered, the status could be verified through RTI and even, online.

The prevailing practice is that the nearest relative who was attending to cremation must fill a registration form with copies 1+ 3.  Immediately two copies will be delivered to the applicant, and the applicant has to be submitted in his Ward-Municipal office.  Within 3 days, there will be a routine verification directly at the place where death has taken place and with neighbors, and the Revenue inspector confirms the death and name of the deceased.  A death certificate will be prepared in the register, and on the application, with fees minimum, four original certificates are being delivered.