02 February 2010

QC goes online for fast docu processing

With the start of the Documents Management Solution System (DMSS) in Quezon City last December 2009, the city government said the public can now secure copies of birth, death and marriage certificates more easily devoid of the long queues of applicants and circuitous process of obtaining the public documents.

Ramon Matabang, chief of the City Civil Registry Department (CCRD), said that the computerized civil registry documentation encourages the applicants to deal directly with legitimate city hall personnel instead of transacting business with fixers.

Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. has steadily modernize the city government’s facilities to rid city hall of fixers and other unscrupulous groups victimizing unsuspecting taxpayers, business permit applicants and other clients.

The P17-million DMSS involves designing, developing and deploying suitable document management solution system implemented over a dedicated local area network within the City Civil Registry Office.

Matabang stressed the city government’s system is the answer to the long and tiring queues commonly experienced by Quezon City residents and other applicants at the National Statistics Office (NSO) on East Avenue.

With the DMSS, Matabang said the CCRD can now maintain a digital format, the entry, retrieval and reproduction of all original civil registry documents.

At present, he said that archiving of civil registry documents under the DMSS, which has three stages is still in progress with grooming on its 48 percent performance, scanning 13.34 percent and indexing 5.83 percent.

By Chito . Chavez

Manila Bulletin

February 1, 2010