Morung Express News
Dimapur | January 5
The registration of births & deaths in Nagaland is implemented by the Department of Economics and Statistics’ (DES) as per the Nagaland Registration of Births & Deaths model Rules 1999. These rules were framed & amended based on the Registration of Births & Deaths Act 1969, according to information the DES’ website.
The department, consequently, publishes annual reports covering details of the registration procedures, difficulties experienced, shortfalls and efforts made for the improvement of the registration system in the State.
Registration procedure
According to DES, as of April 2017, there were 1427 registration centers functioning in the State out of which 1395 are in the rural areas and 32 in the urban areas.
In the urban area, events of births and deaths can be registered in the concerned District Registrars' office/Municipal Offices and Medical Institutions where registration centers had been set up. Head of the household, in case of domiciliary event and incharge of institution, in case of institutional events, are responsible to report the vital events to the concerned Registrar.
Events occurring in government medical institutions will be registered in the institution itself with the registrar of births & deaths attached to the concerned institution. A Registration Unit has also been set up in the office of the District Registrar of births & deaths (District Statistical Officer).
In rural areas, the ASHA’s, Gaunburas, Anganwadi & Dhai workers has been made responsible to further report these events to the village registrar.
Registration unit are also set up in each recognized village of the State, manned by the Head Teacher of Government Primary School as the Registrar of births & deaths for their concerned village with effect from 1-12-2006.
Events can also be reported directly to the registrar by the head of the household.
Besides, a registration unit has also been opened in all the Government District Hospitals for registering all vital events occurring in Medical Institutions. A registration unit has been opened in Kohima Town Municipal office and in Dimapur Municipal office.
The department of Economics & Statistics had attached Statistical staff at the rank of computor /Field Assistant of Statistics to function as the Registrar of Births and Deaths in the Urban Registration units.
The DES, meanwhile, maintained that the successful implementation of the provisions of Registration, the present system of imparting trainings as well as special trainings for low performing RD Blocks at regular intervals should continue with the financial assistance from the Office of Registrar General, India (ORGI).
Large scale publicity campaign on the importance of registration of births and deaths are required to create awareness among the people especially in the rural and remote areas of the state and financial assistance from the ORGI are imperative, it noted.
“There is the need to locate the problem of submission of reports from the Registration in the light of prevailing condition in the State,” it added.
