birth and death with the voter list and the overall development process.(bill)

New Delhi. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that the government is planning to bring a bill (bill) in Parliament to link the data related to birth and death with the voter list and the overall development process. Inaugurating the ‘Janganana Bhavan’, the office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Shah said the census is a process that can form the basis of the development agenda.

He said that digital, complete and accurate census data would have multi-dimensional benefits. He said that planning based on census data ensures that development reaches the poorest of the poor. Shah also said that proper planning of development works can be done if the data of birth and death certificates are preserved in a special way.

He said, ‘A bill will be introduced in Parliament to link the death and birth register with the voter list. Under this process, when a person turns 18, his name will automatically be included in the voter list. Similarly, when a person dies, that information will automatically go to the Election Commission, which will start the process of deleting the name from the voter list.

Officials said that the Bill to amend the Registration of Births and Deaths Act (RBD), 1969, would also facilitate matters related to issue of driving license and passport and giving benefits of government welfare schemes to people, etc.

Shah said, “If the data of birth and death certificates is preserved in a special way, planning of development works can be done properly by estimating the time between censuses.” He said that earlier the process of development was done piecemeal. Used to be completed in 2016 as there was not enough data available for development.
Shah said that after 70 years of independence, a plan was adopted to provide electricity to every village, to provide houses to all, to provide drinking water to all, to provide health care to all, to make toilets in every house. “It took so long because no one had any idea how much money would be needed to meet these basic needs, because the usefulness of the census was not envisaged, the data related to the census was not accurate, available There was no online access to data and no coordination with census and planning officials.

He said, ‘I have been associated with the development process for the last 28 years and have seen that development in our country has been demand based. The people’s representatives who had sway could take more advantage of the development for their constituency. This is one of the reasons why our development happened in pieces and became more expensive due to duplication.

Along with the new Jananna Bhawan, the minister also inaugurated a web portal for registration of births and deaths. A repository of census reports, an online portal for sale of census reports and an upgraded version of the SRS mobile app with geofencing facility were also launched.

Shah said the mobile app equipped with geofencing would ensure that the officials know that the enumerators enter the data by visiting the section assigned to them and no one can make fake entries without visiting the section. He said that it will ensure that the data entered is accurate.

He said, ‘Census is such a process that underlines the development process of a country. Therefore, it is very necessary to make it reliable and error-free by using technologies like advanced version of SRS mobile app equipped with geofencing facility. He said that in the next census the enumeration will be done in electronic format, which will also allow self-enumeration.

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