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Langer chairs 1st meeting for implementation of Revised RBD Rules

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JAMMU: Secretary Planning Development and Monitoring Department (PD&MD) Dr. Raghav Langer on Thursday chaired a meeting regarding the implementation of Civil Registration System in J&K UT.

Secretary health and medical education department Bhupinder Kumar was also present in the meeting.

Notably, the GoI has made the civil registration as a legal binding on every individual of the country through legislation called the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969.

The Act is applicable to the whole country including J&K UT.

“Accordingly, revised Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 2022 have been notified by the Planning Department vide S.O 494 dated 10th October, 2022 with the approval of Central Government on the basis of Model Rules of Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 1999 issued by Ministry of Home Affairs, Office of Registrar General of India,” the official spokesperson said.

The major changes introduced in the Registration process is that the Block Development Officers have been designated as the Registrars in Rural areas instead of Station House Officers (SHO’s) of the concerned Police Stations, he said.

In wake of this, the Director General Economics and Statistics J&K has now been designated as the Chief Registrar of births and deaths for the J&K UT instead of DG Health and Family Welfare.

Chief Medical Officers of the district continue to be the District Registrars.

DSEOs and additional district registrars have been authorised to give permissions for delayed registrations after 30 days but within one year.

Health Officers in JMC/SMC, CEO’s in cantonment boards and Executive Officers in Municipal Committees and Councils shall continue to be the registration authorities.

Notably, the Registration of Births and Deaths Rules were notified in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir in 1975 vide SRO 549 dated 26th November, 1975.

“After issuance of revised statutory orders for implementation of Civil Registration System in the UT of J&K, the Registration Hierarchy existing as per RBD Rules 1975 have been replaced with revised RBD Rules 2022, bringing J&K UT at par with the rest of the country,” the spokesman said.

During the course of the meeting the duties and responsibilities of each of the Registration functionaries was highlighted with the direction for implementing the provisions of the Act and to coordinate and supervise the work of registration in the UT for securing an efficient system of registration.

Emphasis was laid for organizing public awareness campaigns in the District, Block, Panchayat and Municipal areas in coordination with district administration and steps for shifting to online registration through CRS portal to be fully implemented before January 1 of 2023 for issuance of births and deaths certificates.

Dr. Langer emphasized in the meeting that pivotal role under the renewed system is to be played by seven types of functionaries who are the notifiers, informers for registration of births and deaths which includes Auxiliary Nursing Midwives (ANM), Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHAs), Dais, Anganwari Workers, HeadMasters of Government Schools, Village Chowkidars, Caretaker/ In-Charge of Cremation Grounds/ Burial Grounds.

Secretary health and medical education department assured that all requisite manpower, IT equipment shall be provided to oversee the successful roll out of the CRS in J&K.

It was deliberated that as on date a total of 308 Registration Units are functioning in the UT with 04 working in online mode i.e. JMC/SMC/two Cantonment Boards; 106 on offline digitization mode and 198 on Manual entry mode. With the notified changes, all registrations shall be done online compulsorily on the common portal of CRS.

Secretary Planning J&K exhorted all stakeholder departments and entities to ensure successful roll out of the Revised Births & Deaths Registration System in the UT.

He said the office of the Director Census Operations shall be conducting a series of training in this regard in coordination with DG E&S.


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