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 The registration and
certification of Births and Deaths constitutes an important function of the
city corporation, as well as the country at large. Our current registration
systems leave much to be desired in the quality of data collected and the
coverage obtained. India, in general, collects very poor data on the Cause of
Death, which could be vitally important in medical research and other health
and socio-economic studies. Although the Birth and Death Registration Act
1969 states that a first copy of the Birth Certificate is to be issued free of
cost it is rarely implemented. The process of Birth/Death registration is
still cumbersome and can be streamlined with use of IT technologies.
 The
eGovernments Foundation has partnered with the office of the Registrar
General of India in coming up the IT standards for birth/death registration
and certification. This includes standardizing data fields, databases
schema, XML DTD for data transfer and interfaces to the system. This is being
published as Birth and Death Registration and Certification I.T. Standards
document. The eGov Birth/Death IT module was based on this effort. Karnataka's
largest 57 cities are implementing this eGov Birth/Death module with online
hospital integration.
Salients Features of the eGov Birth/Death:
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Easy Birth and Death
Registration & Certification
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Online or offline
registration through hospital or registered doctor
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Automated
computer-generated Registration IDs will be issued for each
registration
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Reports
of Birth, Death, and Still Born registered and certificates can be
generated.
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National and state
registrars office can access local databases of new births/deaths, to
analyze adjustments to population.
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Rich set of Reports on
births, cause of death, still borns, parents literacy/education and other
demographic.
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