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Amendments To 54-Year-Old Births And Deaths Law To Come Into Effect From October 1 Amid Privacy Concerns – Explained

The바카라 웹사이트Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023 that allows the use of a birth certificate as a single document for admission to an educational institution, issuance of a driving licence, preparation of voter list, Aadhaar number, registration of marriage or appointment to a government job will come into force from October 1

The바카라 웹사이트Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023 that allows the use of a birth certificate as a single document for admission to an educational institution, issuance of a driving licence, preparation of voter list, Aadhaar number, registration of marriage or appointment to a government job will come into force from October 1. The Bill aims to create a바카라 웹사이트state, and national, level database of registered births and deaths.

For the first time since its inception in 1969, a Bill to amend the 54-year-old law was바카라 웹사이트passed by Parliament and has got the assent of the President of India. While the government claims that the Bill will allow greater access to free ration and other subsidies for citizens and weed out duplication in the present database, privacy activists have expressed concerns바카라 웹사이트that the creation of the database may leave out sections of the population from the list.

What does the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023 state?

The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023 aims to create a centralised database for deaths and births to help in transparent delivery of public services and to update other databases. The national database may be made available to other authorities preparing or maintaining other databases, including바카라 웹사이트population register, electoral rolls, ration card, and any other national databases as notified.바카라 웹사이트

The Act also provides for the appointment of a Registrar-General, India who may issue general directions for registration of births and deaths and바카라 웹사이트will maintain a national database of registered births and deaths.바카라 웹사이트

How will it impact common people?

While tabling the Bill,바카라 웹사이트Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said바카라 웹사이트that the law regulating births and deaths had not been amended since 1969 and with technological advancements, there was a need to make the law more citizen friendly. The minister made a case for digitising these databases.

The minister also said that the Bill will ensure efficiency and transparency in delivering social benefits to the citizens.바카라 웹사이트It aims to curb duplication and errors in the nation라이브 바카라 present databases.

What are the concerns?

Activists say that the proposal to link바카라 웹사이트Aadhaar details of the parents and the person reporting the birth to the birth certificate of the child violates one's Right to Privacy. In the case of the birth certificate, the person reporting the birth or the informant could be바카라 웹사이트doctor in-charge of a nursing home, manager of a hotel or a place where a child is born. Once this Bill comes into effect, the Aadhaar details of these informants will be linked to the child's Aadhaar. This바카라 웹사이트may violate these officers’ right to privacy disproportionately, as PRS India notes.

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Another violation of privacy that the research noted was with regards to linking of a person's Aadhaar across databases. As mentioned above, the바카라 웹사이트national database for births and deaths will be allowed to be shared with authorities maintaining other databases (such as electoral rolls and ration cards). But such sharing is done without the person's consent.바카라 웹사이트

The Bill also seeks to make birth certificate the sole conclusive proof of age, which would then be used to access other benefits like voting, ration, admission into schools etc. So if a person does not have a birth certificate, they will not be able to vote, or apply for admission to school, marriage, or a government job. "There may be instances where a child라이브 바카라 birth was registered but they ran away from home, or lost their parents in a natural disaster. 바카라 웹사이트 If such a child wants to enrol in school, determining their age may be difficult," PRS ressearch notes.바카라 웹사이트

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