Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969
- October 28, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969
Subject – Governance
Context – Centre wants to keep birth, death database
Concept –
- The Centre has proposed amendments to a 1969 law that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered births and deaths at the national level”.
- Presently, the registration of births and deaths is done by the local registrar appointed by the States.
- It is proposed that the Chief Registrar (appointed by the States) would maintain a unified database at the State level and integrate it with the data at the “national level,” maintained by the Registrar General of India (RGI).
- The amendments will imply that the Centre will be a parallel repository of data.
- The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 (Act No. 18 of 1969) provides for the compulsory registration of births and deaths.