Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Jan 7 : The 1st Inter-Departmental Coordination Committee (IDCC) meeting for birth/death online registrations was held here today.
The meeting was chaired by Sanjeev Khirwar, Principal Secretary Health & Medical Education Department in presence of Amit Sharma, Director Census Operations (DCO) & Director Citizen Registration (DCR) and was attended by Shashanka Ola, Rural Development and IT Secretary, Chief Medical Officer.
Amit Sharma made a detailed presentation about the Civil Registration System (CRS) and its requirements for which the portal is available to the citizens of the nation for getting births and deaths registered which is a mandatory requirement under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, (RBD) Act 1969 and RBD Amendment Act, 2023.
Sharma also insisted on appointment of Medical Superintendents and Hospital / Health Centre heads as Registrars in the UT for registering births and deaths with active involvement of Directorate of Economics and Statistics for capturing the vital statistics of citizens and later compilation of accurate online database, which is already being done in the neighbouring UTs and states.
Sanjeev Khirwar assured Amit Sharma regarding prompt action in same along with activation of payment gateway for Ladakh UT at the earliest so that public can directly file their applications for getting birth and death certificates online at the central portal without any need to physically visit Municipal offices/hospitals, etc for the said purpose.
It was also decided that all the past data regarding births and deaths shall be digitized for the convenience of public of Ladakh UT and it shall be made mandatory to register Aadhaar of the newly born infants, whether it happens institutionally or otherwise, for which the health department teams assured to implement it in UT in future.
Among others who attended the meeting included officers of UT Administration and Directorate of Census officers including Joint Director Arun Kumar, Deputy Director Manmeet Singh, Assistant Director Sunil Kumar, System Integrator-II Himanshu Raina and others.
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