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India has taken the first step to generate digital birth certificates by introducing Registration of Births and Deaths Amendment Bill, 2023.
Key details:
It will be an all-encompassing document that can be used for:
- admission to educational institutions,
- jobs,
- passports or Aadhaar,
- voter enrolment,
- registration of marriage, etc.
Significance:
- This will avoid multiplicity of documents to prove date and place of birth.
- A centralised register would help in updating other databases resulting in efficient and transparent delivery of services and social benefits.
Other provisions:
- The Bill proposes to make it obligatory for States to register births and deaths on the Centre’s Civil Registration System portal.
- It also proposes to share the data with the Registrar General of India, which functions under the Union Home Ministry.
- The Bill would insert provisions for digital registration and electronic delivery of certificate of births and deaths for the benefit of public.
- The new rules will apply to all those born after the Bill becomes law.
- It proposes to collect Aadhaar numbers of parents and informant, if available, for birth registration.
- It will also facilitate registration process of adopted, orphan, abandoned, surrogate child and child of single parent or unwed mother.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB
