Hand Book for Gaon Burahs and Panchayati Raj Leader

80The Registrar of Birth and Death has been assigned with immenseresponsibilities under the registration of birth and Death act, 1969. The mainduties and responsibilities of the Registrar can be broadly listed as under:a. To register all events according to establishment methods andprocedures laid down in the act.b. To ensure the accuracy and completeness of each record.c. To take steps to inform all carefully of all the births and deaths whichtakes place within his jurisdiction and to ascertain and register all suchcases.d. To adopt such measures as are required to inform the public of thenecessary procedures and requirements of registration and value of vitalstatistics.f. To prepare and submit the statistical report to the higher authority.g. To keep safe custody of the records.THE PROCESS OF REGISTRATION:-There are three reporting forms. Form-1- Birth (Pink colour), Form no-2;- Death (yellow colour) and form no 3:- still birth (sky blue colour). Theseforms have two parts. The part of left is called Legal Part and on the right isthe statistical part. The legal part of the forms contains those items ofinformation that are required for legal purposes and the statistical partcontains statistical items.a) The registrar will receives the filled in forms from the hospitals in case ofInstitutional events, medical or other Institution and from the individualinformants, directly or through notified officials such as Village Levelworker, Gaon Buras, ASM etc.He should carefully check each of theforms for its completeness and accuracy. He should ensure that theentries made in the form, particularly in the legal part, are legible andwithout any cutting or overwriting, as this would be the permanentdocument. Any of the entries in the legal part of the form should not spillover to the statistical part. If any of the above mentioned insuffienciesare noticed in the form, it should not be accepted and forthwith returnedto the Institution or the notified official for appropriate correction and ifnecessary for refilling.b) After having satisfied himself with the proper completion of the forms andafter the due verification of the veracity of the event, whenever needed,the register should register the event. Before registering the event heshould also make sure that the event reported has actually occurredwithin his jurisdiction.DELAYED REGISTRATION:-When the informant declares the particulars of an event after the expiry of theprescribed period, i.e. after 21 days, the registration of such an event is