West Bengal - Obtain a Family Member Certificate

ProcedureEdit

In Person

You can obtain a Family Member Certificate through your Taluk / Thasildhar or through the District Civil Court of your area.
The best approach would be to get in touch with the Taluk / Thasildhar office of your area they should be able to provide you with the certificate or in some cases you might be asked to contact a lawyer in District Civil Court to get it done.
Based on the report of the Village Administrative Officer and Revenue Inspector and after due enquiry, this certificate is issued by the Concerned Authority mentioning the names of all legal heirs of the deceased.

Apply through SDO center

Family Member Certificate request is applied by the citizen at the SDO center. This request can be accessed by the Thaasildhaar and processed.
Application for Family Member Certificate can be collected from respective SDO center. Following link can provide you information related to nearest SDO Centers: Link
Go to your area SDO center. Get the required application form.
Fill the form with details correctly and affix 2Rs stamp
Attach all the required documents along with the completed application form
Submit the documents to the authorized officer in center
The application will be verified by the Village Administrative Officer (VAO) and Revenue Inspector (RI).
There will be a ground level verification and scrutiny of the documents and details provided.
Once the verification is over , these officials will submit their report to the Thaasildhaar.
Thaasildhaar will decide to issue the Family Member Certificate to the applicant.

Required DocumentsEdit

Application form : Can be obtained from respective Thaasildhaar office
Your identity documents such as Permanent Account Number (PAN), Ration card, Aadhar card
Ration card, EPIC Card
Aadhaar card
Date of birth certificate such as 10th Standard certificate
Death Certificate (of the deceased)
Proof of residence such as Voters card, Electricity Bill, Telephone Bill
Passport size photographs
A Gazette officer attested and duly signed bond paper on the proforma

Office Locations & ContactsEdit

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL

Office of the Sub-Divisional Officer Alipore (Sadar),
South 24-Parganas, New Treasury Building (3rd Floor),
Alipore, Kolkata - 700 027
Phone No. : 033 24791681, Fax No. 033 24399829,
E-mail: [email protected]

Link for SDO Offices: Link

Sub Divisional Officer,
Room No. 46 (General Section)
North 24 Parganas
Barrackpur

Sadar-SUB-DIVISION

Hooghly District magistrate & collector's Office,
Collectorate Building,
Chinsurah Dist.-Hooghly
Pin-712101
2680-2535 (O)
2680-2852 (R)
2683-2535 (Fax)

email: [email protected]

EligibilityEdit

Wife or Husband or Son or Daughter or Mother may apply for family member certificate in a family

FeesEdit

2.Rs/- Stamp

ValidityEdit

The validity period of this certificate has been enhanced to life long as per GO

Documents to UseEdit

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Sample DocumentsEdit

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Processing TimeEdit

If your application is fair and complete, the processing time will be 30 days.

InstructionsEdit

You can obtain a Family Member Certificate by applying in person and online. You should have valid documents such as ration card, pan card, voter id card. You should manually complete the application forms and submit in the respective MRO office of your area. The main applicant should claim as the head of the family while applying. The main applicant should submit passport size photographs with the application.

Required InformationEdit

The following information is required to complete the application form.

Full Name of the applicant
Other family members names (who are alive)
Applicants Date of birth
Relationship to the applicant
Every family members date of birth
Every applicants occupation
Passport Size photographs of the applicant
Gazetted officer should duly attest the application form
Gazetted officer should duly sign on the bond paper with the proper proforma
Xerox copy of the family head death certificate
Xerox copy of the completed application

Need for the DocumentEdit

If the head or a member of the family expires, the next direct family member of the deceased such as the wife or husband or son or daughter or mother may apply for family member / proper person certificate for the purpose of transferring Electricity connection, House Tax, Telephone connection/patta transfer, Bank Account, etc.
If the person who died is a Government servant, Family Member Certificate is issued for sanction of family pension, and for getting appointment on compassionate grounds.
To establish relationship for claims relating to Insurance, pension, retirement benefits or service benefits of central and state government departments, Government undertakings etc.
In legal succession cases to get succession certificate to establish the relationship
This certificate is required to claim the bank balance that was unclaimed by the account holder after death.

Information which might helpEdit

This certificate can be used for several years.
Fill the application details correctly without any mistake.
Family member certificate is not a Legal Heir certificate

NOTE : It is a punishable offense to try with fraudulent documents to get a Family member certificate�

External LinksEdit

Eseva
Eseva

Citizen Charter
Citizen Charter

OthersEdit

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