India, July 30 -- The founder of the Govandi Citizens Welfare Forum, advocate Faiyaz Alam Shaikh, has sent a legal notice to the registrar-general of India and the chief registrar of births and deaths, Maharashtra, regarding the freeze on corrections of birth certificates in the city since May. The state government, BMC commissioner and BJP ex-MP Kirit Somaiya are the other respondents to the notice sent on Wednesday.

Shaikh told Hindustan Times that many Govandi residents had complained to him that children's school admissions, work visas, passport renewals and even SIR forms were held up due to the freeze.

Between 2024 and 2026, the BMC processed approximately 87,000 corrections, using the legacy SAP Civil Registration System software...