Child adoption process & responsibilities by dr alka mukherjee nagpur m.s. india
Presentation; Saiful
1. A padastrian on the way to
online Birth Registration.
Experience of BANGLADESH
AKM SAIFUL ISLAM CHOWDHURY
Project Director (Additional Secretary)
Birth & Death Registration Project.
Website: br.lgd.gov.bd
Email: saislach@gmail.com
2. BACKGROUND:
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We have a long history of Birth
registration. Colonial British ruler
enacted the Birth and Death
Registration Act, 1873 in undivided
Bengal of the then British India.
3. The Birth and Death Registration Act, 2004
• Government of Bangladesh enacted a new
birth registration act “the Birth and
Death Registration Act, 2004”.
• (2) Act came into force from 3 July 2006.
• (3) There are 5 rules to support the Act.
4. Predominance of the law
Notwithstanding anything contained in any
other law, after this act comes into force, birth
or death of any person shall have to be
registered in accordance with the provisions
of this act.
6. Registration
(1) The Registrar shall record births and deaths
of all the persons in the register irrespective
of race, religion, caste, clan or sex;
(2) For the purpose of registration of the birth
and death of any person, information should
be submitted to the registrar within 45 days of
occurrence through online or in manual form.
7. Power of Registrar
• For the necessity of verifying the
authenticity of information concerning
the registration of any person, the Registrar
can make inquiry by himself or by anybody
else empowered by him;
• For the interest of inquiry the Registrar or
person empowered by him can issue notice
upon any person for giving evidence.
8. Appointment of Registrar General:
The Government , with a view to fulfill the
purpose of this Act, may appoint a Registrar
general and necessary number of officers and
staff and terms of their services shall be
determined by the Government.
9. Person liable for giving information on
Births and Deaths
• Father
• Mother
• Guardian
• Person himself after 18 years
• Specified person
In case of
birth
registration
• Son
• Daughter
• Guardian
• Specified person
In case of
Death
Person shall be
liable to submit
information to the
Registrar within
45 (forty five)
days’ of the
occurrence
12. Giving name of the child
• Name of the child should be given before birth
registration;
• Provided that birth of any child may be
registered, if the child is not given any name
and in that case, his name should be
submitted within the next 45(forty five) days
of registration.
13. Basic fields for Birth and Death Registration
• Name: Full name.
• Date of birth: According to Gregorian
calendar in the format of dd-mm-yyyy.
• Place of birth: Including the name of district.
• Gender: male/female.
• Mother's Name and Nationality: Full name,
no need to mention Mrs., Late, or any designation.
• Father's Name and Nationality: Full name,
no need to mention Mr., Late, or any designation.
• Permanent Address: Generally ancestral
address or where lives for more than three years.
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14. How to create BRN
• RMO 1 for rural Union Parishad, 2 for Municipality, 3 for urban Union Parishad,
5 for Cantonment, 9 for City Corporation and 0 for Embassy.
• B. Upazila Code for Union Parishad, Municipality Code, City Corporation
Code, Cantonment Code and Embassy Code.
• C. Union Parishad Code for Union Parishad, Ward Code for Municipality/ City
Corporation/ Cantonment and Consulate code for Embassy.
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Sequential numberCBR
M
O
District
Code
Year of birth
#
A 17 digits unique number as BRN is allocated for every person as shown below:
# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
Geo Code
15. Death Registration
In case of death registration additional
information like date of death, place of death,
name of spouse (if applicable) and cause of
death are needed.
16. Delayed Registration
If information on birth or death is not sent to
the Registrar within 45 days can be
registered later on within the prescribed
process and subject to the payment of fees
after 2 years of occurrence.
17. Supervision and Inspection
Any person empowered by the Government,
on this behalf, may supervise
and inspect the office of the Registrar,
register and all activities relating to the
registration.
18. Reporting
The Government, if necessary, may call for
information relating to the registration or
report thereof from the Registrar at any time
and the Registrar shall be bound to
provide that.
19. Reporting channel
City Corporation
Union Parishad
Municipality
Embassy
Cantonment Board
Reporting
period Reporting point
Upazila Nirbahi
Officer
Deputy
Commissioner
PD, Birth
Registration
Registrar
offices
Quarterly
Half
yearly
20. Evidentiary Value of Birth or Death Certificate
• (1) As the proof of the information relating to the age,
birth and death of any person before any Office or Court or
School- College or Government and Non-Government
Organizations, Birth or Death Registration Certificate given
under this Act shall be deemed to be
admissible as evidence.
• (2) All the files and registers relating to the registration shall
be deemed to be the Public Document in the meaning as
the expression ‘Public Document’ has been used to mean in
The Evidence Act, 1872(Act I of 1872) .
• (3) Notwithstanding anything in any other law, the Birth
Certificate as a proof of age should be used in the following
cases , such as :─
21. The Birth Certificate as a proof of age should be used in the
following cases
Issuance of
Passport√
Registration
of Marriage
√ Admission into
the Academic
Institutions
√
Appointment in
any Job
Issuance of
Driving License
Preparation of
√
Issuance of
Passport
Land
Registration
√
National
ID card
√ Any others,
which govt may
fixed by Rules.
22. The Death Certificate as a proof of death should be used in the
following cases
• Getting succession certificate;
• Getting family pension;
• Claim of the Life Insurance of the deceased
person;
• Getting mutation and division of holding;
• Any other matter specified by the rule.
23. Penalty
(1) Any person violating the provision of this act or the rule made there
under shall be punished with fine not exceeding Taka 5000.00(five
thousand).
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the sub-section (1), if any
person, for the purpose of birth or death registration, gives false
information or gives any such written statement or declaration, which he
knows or believes to be false, then that person shall be punished with a
fine not exceeding Taka 5000.00(five thousand) or with simple
imprisonment not exceeding 1(one) year or with both.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the sub-section (1), if any
Registrar registers birth or death , despite his knowledge about the false
information, written statement or declaration mentioned under sub-
section (2), then the concerned Registrar shall be punished with a fine not
exceeding Taka 5000.00(five thousand) or with simple imprisonment of
not exceeding 1(one) year or with both, if does not succeed to prove that
that offence has been committed beyond his knowledge or he tried to
stop the said offence to the best of his ability.
24. Situation of BR
162.50 million births and 6.89 million death have been
registered till December 2013 - out of these, nearing 110
million birth records have been registered in online BRIS till
today. (To observe the real time data please visit website:
br.lgd.gov.bd>Real time BR data
http://www.paskan.com/br/bd/dial)
25. Progress of online Birth Registration
Total
Number
of
Registrar
Offices
Online Births registered as a percentage of the population to
have been completed (as of May 31, 2014)
100% 90%+ 80%+ 70%+ 60%+ 50%+ 40%+ 30%+ 20%+ 10%+ 1%+ >1% 0
4996 2172 508 271 233 203 202 180 165 217 262 444 105 34
% of
achieve
ment
43.47 10.17 5.42 4.66 4.06 4.04 3.60 3.30 4.34 5.24 8.89 2.10 0.68
Total Number of Registration offices in country: 4996
Union Parishad: 4545
Municipality: 312
City Corporation: 124 under 11 City Corporation
Cantonment Board: 15
26. Situation of Birth Registration for Children
• National plan to improve civil registration and vital statistics
system includes accelerating registration of children within
45 days of their birth as one of priority areas and fully
enforced coordination between registration and
immunization/ health program is identified as the best
approach.
• The rate of registration of children under the age of five
increased from 9.8 percent in 2006 to 31 percent in 2011.
• Rough estimate of 2.8 million children were born between
January and December 2013 and only 39,759 were
registered within 45 days of birth - this is only 1.42% of
expected births.
• 14,697 and 22,076 birth records have been registered with
in 45 days of birth from 1 Jan to 31 May in 2013 and 2014
respectively.
27. Registrar Offices with Good Practices
Though the overall scenario of BR within 45 days of birth is not up to the
mark, some registrar offices are doing very well. The list of some registrar
offices that are doing good are shown below:
Sl. District Registrar Office
Population
as per
Census-
2011
Estimated
New Births
in 2013
(Pop*1.79%)
Birth registered
within 45 days
of birth in 2013
%
1 Dinajpur Parbatipur Paurasava 29,143 522 424 81.28
2 Magura Babukhali 25,751 461 268 58.14
3 Barguna Patharghata 28,491 510 282 55.300
4 Dhaka Dhaka Cantonment 19,647 352 182 51.75
5 Magura Beroil Polita 20,186 361 142 39.30
6 Lalmonirhat Mahishkhocha 25,366 454 145 31.93
7 Kishoreganj Bhairab Municipality 118,992 2130 644 30.24
8 Natore Lakshmipur Kholabaria 29,134 521 116 22.24
9 Chapainababganj Chapai Municipality 180,371 3229 667 20.66
10 Sunamganj Shimulbak 29,147 522 105 20.13
11 Sunamganj Joykalas 36,836 659 118 17.90
12 Naogaon Naogaon Paurasava 150,549 2695 292 10.84
28. Experience gathered from registrar
office in Bhairab Municipality
Bhairab Municipality is one of the good registrar offices which
entered 644 BR data in 2013 within 45 days of birth which is 30.24
per cent of estimated birth.
Project Director visited the registrar office of Bhairab Municipality
on 2 September 2013. Staff there were not aware of BR within 45
days of birth. Municipality completed 100% birth registration but
was reluctant to registrar within the given period. After discussion
with PD, Bhairab Municipality started and by number it is second in
the list just after end of the year.
29. Key to Success
• In Municipality, health workers (HW) are also
responsible for birth registration.
• HW prepares pregnant mothers’ list and frequently
visited the would be mothers.
• In between delivery and first date of immunization
under EPI, HW completed the birth registration
application and sent to the Sanitary Inspector who is
working as an Authorized Person for birth
registration under the Mayor.
• To avoid any missing births, HW entered the BRN on
EPI card at the time of first date of immunization.
• In case of any missing births, HW facilitated parents
to submit BR application.
30. Limitations
• Until now, many people in our country do not know the
importance of a Birth Certificate in their lives.
• Political persons and so called white collar people are not
interested to register within 45 days of birth.
• Parents like to wait till their child gets admitted in school.
• Teachers change the date of birth at the time of enrolment
in school.
31. How to ensure birth registration
within 45 days of birth?
• EPI workers shall verify the BR certificate and write the BR#
on EPI register and card. In case of use of IT, EPI workers
can collect all information like name, date of birth, gender,
parents’ names, address by using the BRN.
• If a baby is brought to EPI point without BR certificate, HW
will help the parents to submit BR application to the
Registrar Office and collect BRC before second doze of
immunization.
32. The Way Forward
• Continue strengthening capacity of birth and death
registration units
• Awareness raising of parents and communities on birth
registration within 45 days of child birth
• Systematic coordination between Health (EPI and
hospitals) and birth and death registration sectors in
facilitating birth registration of newborn children
• Use of online birth registration application
33. Allow me to grow up within safety and honesty.
Please don’t manipulate my age.
