Awareness programme for civil registration launched

With the financial assistance of the Global Affairs of Canada, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme launched an awareness programme about civil registration. The project coordinator, Shamim Akhtar, said it was the duty of every citizen to register the events of birth, death, marriage and divorce with the village council without delay. She said different types of interventions were afoot to promote the process of registration which included dissemination of information through all available means, imparting training to village council staff and provision of facilities required for the process in far-flung villages.