Jamshedpur, Sept. 19: If it’s the season for school admission, it’s also the time for getting births registered.

Parents are making a beeline for the Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) to get birth certificates of their children. The reason: schools have started distributing forms for admission.

Sources in JNAC said that on an average, 100 applications for birth certificates are being submitted in the civic body office every day.

To cope with the situation, the JNAC special officer has deputed extra staff to issue the birth certificates quickly.

JNAC superintendent R.K.P. Singh said the rush for birth certificates begins in August and peaks in September as this is the time when the admission process starts.

Singh said the majority of the parents do not get the registration done within 21 days of the birth of their child. “This is a negligence on the part of parents. If they would have applied for registration within 21-days of childbirth, they would not have to go through the harrowing situation now,” he said.

Some schools, including Loyola, Sacred Heart Convent and Carmel Junior College, have made it a point to accept only certificates which have been issued within a year of a child’s birth. “We will not entertain certificates that have been issued after a year of a child’s birth. We have taken this step to avoid any dispute in the original date of birth,” said Loyola School principal Fr Augustine Vattamattam.

Rajendra Vidyalaya School has already distributed the application forms asking the candidates to provide the birth certificates issued by the municipal authorities concerned. Jamshedpur Public School will start giving out forms for admission to nursery from September 22. DBMS and Sacred Heart Convent School will open its doors from September 24 and 27 respectively.

Some schools have already put up notices stating that they will accept only original birth certificates issued by a competent authority. “We have come across parents who brought illegal birth certificates. As a result, we have made it a rule that we will accept only those birth-certificates which are issued within a year of a child’s birth,” said a school principal requesting anonymity.

DBMS School principal Prema Balasubramanium said: “The birth certificate is required for our record. As such we accept such birth certificates which have been issued by any civic body.”

Sources said the authorities of the school are worried about the middlemen who fleece the parents making false promises of admission in reputed schools. Some schools have also issued circulars asking parents to beware of such conment.