KOLKATA: Issuance of death certificates for those who didn’t live in Kolkata but have recently died here, and getting copies of death certificates for Kolkata residents who died three decades ago, are proving to be difficult. In the former case, the civic authorities are directing families to seek redressal elsewhere. In the latter, they are demanding documents that are difficult to come by.
Howrah resident Diptosh Ghosh has been running from pillar to post for a month to get his father’s death certificate. Ghosh’s father had died at Medical College on May 8 and was cremated in Howrah.
