The draft amendment to the Registration of Birth and Death Act has a provision to update the database of births and deaths with other databases, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said this on the day Parliament approved a bill to link the electoral rolls with the Aadhaar ecosystem -- a move strongly opposed by the opposition parties.
Mr. Rai was replying to a question on whether the government has any proposal to link birth and death certificates with Aadhaar to maintain real-time databases of citizens and update NATGRID database.
“Following consultations with the concerned Union Ministries and Departments and all the State Governments and Union Territories, a draft amendment to the Registration of Birth & Death (RBD) Act, 1969 was placed in public domain from October 18, 2021 to December 2, 2021 for comments, which inter alia includes a provision to use the database of births and deaths to update various databases,” Mr. Rai said in the written reply.
Replying to another question, the minister said as per Section 17 of the RBD Act, any person may cause a search to be made by the Registrar for any entry in a register of births and deaths and may obtain an extract from such register relating to any birth or death.
He also said till now, the government has not taken any decision to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) at the national level.
