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Fri Dec 26 21:05:08 IST 2008


http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/18/stories/2003101803820500.htm

Saturday, Oct 18, 2003
The Hindu
* *Campaign to issue birth certificates

By Our Staff Reporter

 BANGALORE, Oct. 17. A national campaign to issue birth certificates of all
children under the age of 10 years will be taken up, J.K. Banthia, Registrar
General and Census Commissioner, has said.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, Mr. Banthia said the first phase
of the programme would be launched on November 14 (Children's Day) and would
continue till November 20.

It would be commemorated as the Child Rights Week. Efforts would be made to
clear applications for birth certificates pending since January 1, 1994, and
issue birth certificates immediately after registration.

Mr. Banthia said that in the first phase of the campaign, it was proposed to
prepare birth certificates in respect of births registered since January 1,
1994, if the children were residing in the place of birth. In the second
phase, where births had been registered but the children had shifted from
the original place of residence, the present residence would be ascertained
and arrangements made to issue birth certificates through the registrar
concerned. In the third phase, issuance of certificates to children whose
births had not been registered would be taken up, Mr. Banthia said.

A data dissemination unit with library facility was inaugurated at the
Census Directorate, Kendriya Sadan, Koramangala, on Friday.

 National ID cards

 "Multi-purpose national identity cards", which will help citizens establish
their identity for services at government offices, are likely to be issued.

The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, J.K. Banthia, said
here that a pilot project to review the feasibility of national ID cards had
been launched in 13 States chosen on the basis of their proximity to
international borders and the high rate of birth registrations.


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