The Civil Registration System (CRS) in India has a long history dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. A Central Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Bill was passed in 1886 to allow for consensual registration across British India. The Registration of Births and Deaths Act (RBD Act) was passed in 1969 after independence to improve consistency and comparability in the recording of births and deaths throughout the nation, as well as the compilation of vital statistics based on them. Recording of births, deaths, and stillbirths has become compulsory in India since the Act’s passage. At the union government level, the Registrar General of India (RGI) oversees and streamlines registration efforts across the nation. In India, the Civil Registration System (CRS) is a single mechanism for documenting vital incidents (births, deaths, stillbirths) as well as their parameters in a continual, permanent, mandatory, and universal manner. For socioeconomic modeling, data provided by a thorough and up-to-date CRS is critical. Implementation of the Registration of Births and Death Act (RBD Act). 1969 is entrusted with the respective State Governments. State governments select bureaucrats to register births and deaths throughout the country. The Directorate of Census Operations is a subsidiary office of the Office of the Registrar General of India that is accountable for managing the implementation of the Act in their respective State/UT. The Act requires that all states use the same birth and death recording forms and certificates.
