Civil Registration System:
A new set of data from the Civil Registration System (CRS) shows that about 86.5 lakh deaths were registered in the country in 2022, substantially lower than the peak of 2021.
- Civil Registration System is popularly known as the birth and death registration
- It is the recording of vital events i.e. birth, death & still Birth under the statutory provisions on continuous and permanent basis.
- The registration of birth and death is done under the provisions of a central Act namely Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, 1969 (amended in 2023).
- This Act was enacted in the year 1969 and was enforced in most of the States/UTs from 1st April, 1970 to promote uniformity and comparability in the registration of Births and Deaths across the country.
- CRS falls under the Concurrent list of the Constitution of India at Sl. No. 30.
- The Office of the Registrar General, India, (ORGI) obtains data on causes of death from the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths of different States and Union Territories.
- Vital statistics generated from civil registration significantly contribute to the formulation of effective and efficient evidence-based policy across multiple sectors.
