Online booking of crematorium slots, death certificates in works

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is planning to initiate online slot booking facilities and digitise transactions to facilitate the issuance of death certificates across the 68 funeral centres operated by the civic body in Delhi in a bid to ease the process at these centres, according to announcements made during the budget proposals on December 9.

- Paras Singh

The health department of the corporation said it will redevelop the Sarai Kale Khan and Sector 26, Rohini, crematoriums to reduce the load on Nigam Bodh Ghat crematorium. The proposal to revamp funeral centres was moved by municipal commissioner Gyanesh Bharti.

According to the annual birth and death registration report of the Delhi government issued last week, the city recorded 128,106 deaths with an average of 351 every day in 2022.