A bill to link the death and birth register with electoral rolls will be introduced in parliament. Under this process, when a person turns 18, his or her name will be automatically included in the electoral rolls.
Similarly, when a person dies, that information automatically will go to the Election Commission, which will start the process of deleting the name from the voters’ list.
Officials said the bill to amendment the Registration of Birth and Death Act (RBD), 1969, will also facilitate matters related to the issuance of driving licence and passport and giving benefits of the government welfare schemes to people besides others.
“If the data of birth and death certificate is preserved in a special way, then by estimating the time between the census, planning of development works can be done properly.
Earlier the development process happened in fragments because adequate data for development was not available.
After 70 years of independence planning was adopted to electrify every village, to give a home to everyone, to give tap drinking water to everyone, to give healthcare to everyone, to give toilets to every home.
This was announced by Minister for Home Amit Shah.
