{"id":17179,"date":"2023-09-15T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17179"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:12:47","slug":"digital-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/15-09-2023\/digital-birth-certificates","title":{"rendered":"Digital Birth Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All reported births and deaths in the country<strong> will be digitally registered<\/strong> on the Centre\u2019s portal from October 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current-affairs\/25-07-2023\/daily-current-affairs-25-07-2023\/\">The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023<\/a>&nbsp; paves way for digital birth certificates.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It will be a<strong> single document<\/strong> to be used for admission to educational institutions, applications for driving licence, government jobs, passports or Aadhaar, voter enrolment, and registration of marriage, among others, will come into effect from October 1.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The centralised database<\/strong> will also update the National Population Register (NPR), ration cards, property registration and electoral rolls.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It will be <strong>compulsory for States to register births and deaths on the Centre\u2019s Civil Registration System (CRS) portal <\/strong>and share data with the RGI which functions under the Union Home Ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">National Population Register (NPR)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NPR is the first step to the creation of the<strong> National Register of Citizens (NRC),<\/strong> as per the Citizenship Act.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NPR, first collected in<strong> 2010 and updated in 2015<\/strong> through door-to-door enumeration, already has a database of 119 crore residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/all-reported-births-and-deaths-to-be-digitally-registered-on-centres-portal-from-october-1\/article67307282.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: GS2\/Governance In News About National Population Register (NPR) Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17180,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions\/17180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}