Catigbian inks agreement for Wider civil registry services

FURTHER broadening its public services while simultaneously generating revenues for its development, Catigbian has signed an agreement with the National Statistics Office (NSO) for the Batch Request Entry Query System (BREQS) last September 22. With the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing, Mayor Roberto Salinas said he is intent on providing the most accessible services to locals and even those from other towns who desire to use Catigbian's services. More than 40 local civil registrars (LCR) witnessed the signing of the historic MOA for the innovation that would be recorded as first in Bohol to be offered by an LGU.

The NSO regional director Atty. Lilia Tandoc signed the MOA while Mayor Salinas formalized the agreement for Catigbian. With the Catigbian BREQS, the NSO authorizes the local civil registrar here to receive requests for NSO issued copies and certifications of civil registry documents and issue it to its clientele through the Serbilis outlets designated for users. With Catigbian's BREQS, people are given more convenience by eliminating their need to travel to the nearest Serbilis outlets because the local LCR can now act as the local NSO liaison. This should save the people some time, money and effort, explains information officer and Sangguniang Bayan Secretary Ardissa Estavilla.

The MOA formalizes the NSO sharing of software, form templates, updates and procedures in serving the public that allows LCRs to do off-line encoding of details. It also delineates the responsibilities of the NSO and Catigbian and defines the acceptable parameters of the use of the BREQS scheme, NSO warranties and the technical support on software use. The BREQS can now process birth, death or marriage documents, copies of NSO annotated documents and certificates of no record of marriage, the BREQS brochure stated.

The MOA also goads the agro-tourism town to provide hardware to run the BREQS software in the town, allow the LCR to earn trainings detail manpower support for the program. The LCR training aims to orient them and their staff of the operational details of the BREQS like payments, submission and release procedures, software updates and a training on hands-on trial installation and software use, the brochure use, sources said.The program runs on a basic Pentium II with at least 75MB space and runs on a Windows 98, 2000 or XP platforms.

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