Amit Shah: Will bring Bill to link birth, death data with electoral rolls

Union Home Minister Amit Shah releases a publication at the inauguration of the newly built Janganana Bhawan, in New Delhi, Tuesday, May 22. (PTI Photo)

Digital, complete and accurate Census figures will have multidimensional benefits, and planning based on Census data ensures development reaches the poorest of the poor, he said.

“If the birth and death certificate data are preserved in a special way, development works can be planned properly. 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 automatically be included in the electoral rolls. Similarly, when a person dies, that information automatically will go to the EC, which will start the process of deleting the name from the voters’ list. Earlier, the development process took place in fragments, because adequate data for development was not available,” he said.

“The registration of birth and death is very important for any country and it helps in making development plans between two Censuses. Now the government is making this process easier by making it online, Shah said. “Today, history of all Census since 1981 has been compiled and published in the form of a book. The accountability can only be expected when responsibilities are fixed, and with the launch of upgraded SRS mobile application with geofencing today, employees at even the lowest level will become more responsible.”

Union Home Minister Amit Shah plants a sapling at the inauguration of the newly built Janganana Bhawan, in New Delhi, Tuesday, May 22. (PTI Photo)

Shah said the Census is the process of charting the course of development of the country, and for this, it is necessary that the SRS upgraded mobile application along with geofencing should create an alert system so that officials doing the Census will not go out of the allotted area.

“Many organisations are being established across the nation to provide analysis related to development, along with professional advice, to the states, districts and tehsils and their professional competence should be used to speed-up the development of the country. For the analysis purpose, they should be provided with all the census literature and the online sale of all census publications, which has been initiated from today, will prove to be of great benefit to the planners and researchers,” he said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India Mritunjay Kumar Narayan at the inauguration of the newly-built Janganana Bhawan, in New Delhi, Monday, May 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

“The new Census will be the foundation for developing the country in a universal and comprehensive manner. Earlier, there was also no link between the people conducting the census and those working on development planning,” he said.