*India has 34 births, 10 deaths every minute*
New Delhi, Mar 5 (PTI) At least 34 births and 10 deaths are registered in
the country every minute, a census body today revealed. According to the
Registrar General of India, a mind boggling 49,481 births and 14,475 deaths
are registered in the country every day but the figure accounts for less
than 70 per cent of the actual data.
It also revealed that even though registration of births is an universal
right of the child under a UN Convention, to which India is a signatory, the
current level of birth registration is 68 per cent. The death registration
in the country stood at 63 per cent of the actual occurrence.
While states like Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have made considerable
improvement in the last four years, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar lagged behind,
Registrar General of India D K Sikri told a national conference of Chief
Registrars of Births and Deaths. Presenting the statistics at the two day
meet, Sikri said the National Population Policy 2000 has mandated 100 per
cent level of registration of deaths and births by 2010.
He said the total number of Registration Units in the country was 2.55 lakh
in which 18.6 million births and 5.28 million deaths were registered during
2006.
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