The callous style of Nagpur Municipal Corporation's (NMC) functioning once again came to the fore when municipal commissioner Aseem Gupta
failed to initiate any action in the NRI head butting case despite the fact that the one-man inquiry committee headed by health officer Dr Milind Ganvir submitted the report seven days ago. The committee has held the NMC's birth and death registration department, especially the registrar, responsible for the entire episode.
Dr Ganvir has held NMC officials responsible for the NRI's unusual protest, a senior NMC official informed. "The Adelaide (Australia)-based Raza Sharif, a former resident of Vaishali Nagar, was allegedly made to run from pillar to post for 15 days to get some corrections done in the birth certificates of his two sons - Danish and Dilshad. To protest the sloppy working of NMC birth and death registration department officials, Sharif had banged his forehead in the chamber of the Citizens Facility Centre chief," sources said.
During the month-long inquiry, Dr Ganvir recorded the statements of complainant Sharif and all the officials working with the birth and death registration department along with the officials of CFC department. The inquiry found NMC officials responsible for pushing Sharif to a point of desperation, sources with the civic body added.
Gupta told TOI that though he had received the inquiry report, he had decided to hold a hearing of both the parties, the complainant and the officials, in a couple of days time. The course of action will be determined only after the hearing, he added. "The entire system of issuing birth and death certificates needs to be improved," Gupta opined. Meanwhile, Sharif, after a prolong wait, was issued the corrected birth certificates of his sons, a source added.