The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 provides for compulsory registration of births and deaths under a uniform law across India. One of the major objectives that has been stated in the ‘Statement of Objects and Reasons’ attached to the Bill is “to create a National and State level database of registered births and deaths which would help in …
The websites and applications related to the decennial Census exercise and the National Population Register were on November 7, 2022 notified as “protected system” or “Critical Information Infrastructure” under the Information Technology Act, 2008. The RGI notified on November 7, 2022 that under Section 70 of the IT Act, the Central Government declares the “computer resources relating to the Census …
