Till a few years ago, getting copies of birth or death certificates from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) used to be a pain.
Entering the MCD office, standing in a queue, dealing with the usually unfriendly clerks and then getting a birth certificate in which the hand-written name of the new-born baby was either misspelt or illegible
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