India, March 2 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Sunday advised that Delhi residents who obtained birth certificates of their family members from the erstwhile north, south and east Delhi municipal corporations to check the status of the certificates and download the updated documents from the civic body's website.

The MCD was split into the north, south and east MCD in 2012 and reunited into single urban local body in 2022. In an attempt to weed out the duplication of registration numbers that had crept into the birth registration database, the civic body updated the certificates issued by the erstwhile corporations. In a public notice released on Sunday, it said that only the "updated certificates will be treated as valid....