Draft Bill On Births, Deaths Has Provision To Link Data With Other Databases

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai made the remarks on a day when the Parliament passed a bill to link electoral rolls with the Aadhaar ecosystem.

The draft amendment to the Registration of Birth and Death Act has a provision to update the database of births and deaths with other databases, the Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Lok Sabha today.

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai made the remarks on a day when the Parliament passed a bill to link electoral rolls with the Aadhaar ecosystem.

The move has been strongly opposed by the Opposition. A decision to prepare a National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) has not been taken yet, the Government said on a query if the database would be used for the National Register of Citizens.

"Following consultations with the concerned Union Ministries and Departments and all the State Governments and Union Territories, a draft amendment to the Registration of Birth & Death (RBD) Act, 1969 was placed in public domain from October 18, 2021 to December 2, 2021 for comments, which inter alia includes a provision to use the database of births and deaths to update various databases," Mr Rai said.