New Delhi: The birth register will now mention a child’s father’s and mother’s religions according to Model Rules drafted by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, The Hindu has reported.
Earlier, only the family’s religion was recorded.
The proposed ‘Form No.1-Birth Report’ will expand on the earlier format, requiring the child’s religion to also accompany the religion of the child’s father and mother.
The Model Rules will need to be adopted and notified by state governments before they are implemented, the report notes.
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2023, was passed by the parliament on August 11 last year.
The Wire had noted how the home ministry is proposing to make Aadhaar mandatory to track new births and deaths in any family with the help of these amendments. “It is proposing to build a database of births and deaths and use it to update every other database in the government, from the National Population Register, to voter rolls, and the databases of ration card, passport, driving licence and Aadhaar,” Srinivas Kodali had written.
The Hindu’s report noted that the birth register form pertaining to legal information (there is another, for statistical information) has been expanded to record the Aadhaar number, and the mobile and e-mail IDs of both the parents, if available. The address box has been made more descriptive, it says.
The “informant” providing the information will also have to provide their Aadhaar and contact details.
