The Registrar General of India has ordered stricter scrutiny of digitised birth and death records after concerns that some certificates may be fake or unauthorised. The order is important because birth certificates serve as identity documents in some electoral roll processes and because civil registration records are foundational public documents.
What the Registrar General of India has directed
The Registrar General of India has asked State registration machinery to tighten checks on digitising old birth and death records. The stated concern is that credentials of registration staff may have been compromised through shared login IDs, passwords, or one-time passwords (OTPs).
The new verification steps include:
The Registrar General of India says registration units should improve security, transparency, traceability, and authenticity in the digitisation pipeline.
Administrative steps ordered for digitisation
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