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DEFICIENCY IN SERVICE Forum directs CMO to pay Rs 10,000 Shariq Majeed Tribune News Service Sangrur, January 23 Acting in a case of deficiency in service, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (DCDRF) has ordered the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to pay Rs 10,000 as consolidated amount of compensation to Gurcharan Singh of Issra village near Dhuri. The forum also directed the CMO-cum-registrar (births and deaths), Sangrur, to issue the birth certificate of Jagtar Singh on the basis of the certificate of the Punjab School Education Board. Member of DCDRF Harvinder Sharma said the complainant Gurcharan Singh had averred that he applied in the CMO office to issue birth certificate of Jagtar Singh depositing Rs 7 as the requisite fee on May 4, 2009. He said repeated visits of the complainant to secure birth certificate turned the exercise futile, despite its dire need. Ultimately, the complainant learnt that the relevant page of entry of birth of Jagtar had been torn. He added that even the educational certificate submitted in the CMO office to prove date of birth, besides in writing by village panchayat failed to yield any result.