We missed this earlier: The central government wants to create a national database for registered births and deaths, a proposed amendment to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969 indicates. The database would be used to update multiple records, including the National Population Register (NPR) and the Aadhaar database. Registered births and deaths are currently only recorded by state governments. Critics fear that this amendment is a step towards the creation of the highly controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC). The Ministry for Home Affairs is accepting comments on the proposed amendment till December 2. What will the database be used for? Under the proposed amendment, the Registrar General of India will create a national database of registered births and deaths which will be used to update the following registers: Population Register prepared under the Citizenship Act, 1955 Electoral Registers or Electoral Rolls prepared under Representation of People Act, 1951 Aadhaar Database prepared under Aadhaar Act, 2016, Ration Card database prepared under National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA); Passport Database prepared under the Passport Act Driving Licence database under Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 Database violates right to privacy, will be used for NPR-NRC: Critics In a series of tweets last month, MP Asaduddin Owaisi highlighted that the database will be used to create the National Register of Citizens and update electoral rolls while adding that it was unconstitutional: https://twitter.com/asadowaisi/status/1454736768985538563 Further, Owaisi also claimed that the amendment violates the right to privacy, using data collected for one purpose for another purpose…
