Haryana simplifies marriage registration process

CHANDIGARH: In a bid to simplify the procedure for registration of marriage, the Haryana government on Monday accorded approval to a proposal to transfer the cases of Haryana Compulsory Marriage Registration Act, 2008 to the department of revenue and disaster management.
Currently, the mandate for administering the marriage registration process vests with the home department as well as the department of revenue, and there is ambiguity in the exact domain of each department. It was, therefore, decided that this subject should be dealt with by the department of revenue and disaster management instead of the home department. A notification to this effect will be issued soon.
An official spokesman said a meeting was held on July 15, 2020 under the chairmanship of additional chief secretary, revenue department, on the process for online marriage registration in Haryana. It was discussed that in the existing process, the applicants (bride, groom and witnesses) have to make personal appearances more than once, causing inconvenience to them. Therefore, it was decided to modify the process, so that the applicants have to visit only once during the complete cycle.
He said the issue of marriage registration is a sensitive one and it needs to be ensured that there is no scope for any data manipulation. Therefore, the data entry for the application must be done by the applicants themselves. It was, therefore, also decided to revise the process flow accordingly.
At present some portions of the marriage registration process are manual and there is a need to digitise those parts of the flow, he added.
He said in the present process, if the bride refuses to provide documents, the application lies pending in the system. It was agreed to define timelines for closure of the application. If complete documentation and formalities like personal appearance are not submitted within the specified period, the application shall automatically be marked closed, he added.