Haryana to achieve 100% birth, death registration before 2010

Chandigarh, Nov 3 (UNI) The Haryana Government has adopted a multi-pronged strategy to achieve the national target of 100 per cent registration of births and deaths before the stipulated period of achieving this level by 2010 and facilitate people to get such certificates easily.

The strategy included computerisation of record of births and deaths, adoption of an effective monitoring system and making health workers responsible to ensure registration of all births and deaths in the state, Chief Registrar (Deaths and Births), Dr N K Sharma said here today.

As a result of the effective steps taken, the registration of births and deaths has enhanced to 88 and 87 per cent respectively as compared to 78 and 77 per cent in the year 2004.

Dr Sharma said with growing awareness among the people about the necessity and utility of birth and death certificates, the demand of such certificates has increased considerably.

While the Department of Urban Local Bodies has provided computers to the municipal councils for the purpose, the Health Department has started the process, to computerise the births and deaths record available in the offices of the Civil Surgeons.

A decision has been taken to get the births record computerised from 1999 and that of deaths from the year 2001. This, he said, would facilitate the people in getting such certificates quickly.

He said registration of births and deaths was being monitored every month at district level and at the state headquarters.

Dr Sharma said the data of registration would prove useful in detecting the places of low sex ratio, for which appropriate corrective measures would be taken. Apart from using this data for effective implementation of family welfare programme, the registration of births would also prove useful in recording the number of institutional deliveries, he added.

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