[Marxistindia] Don't Centralise Database

[news from the cpi(m)]

October 28, 2021
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Don't Centralise Database
 
The proposed amendment of the law to enable the Centre to maintain the
database of registered births and deaths at the national level is an
unwarranted step of centralization.
 
At present, the registration of births and deaths is under the purview of
the state governments.
 
The amendment proposed to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969
providing for the Centre to maintain the database is to facilitate the
updating of the National Population Register (NPR) which is the basis on
which the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is to be prepared.  This
NPR-NRC, along with the Citizenship Amendment Act, is going to be an
exclusionary and divisive step.
 
Further the centralization of this database is meant to strengthen the
surveillance regime already in place.
 
The CPI(M) demands that the registration of births and deaths be continued
under the jurisdiction of the states.
 
 
 
 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cpim.org/pipermail/marxistindia_cpim.org/attachments/20211028/2649f29a/attachment.html>