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CIC asks Registrar General of India to change its data collection procedure
Why is it in news?
- The CIC has directed the Registrar General of India (RGI) to change its practices of data collection, especially with regard to births and deaths.
- Information Commissioner issued directives to make changes in the software and practices of the RGI.
RGI as data aggregator
- During the hearing, the official representing the RGI said the office was a data aggregator.
- The states were tasked with the overall implementation under section 3 of the Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, whereas the ground-level record was maintained by the registrars appointed by the respective states.
- There is no legal impediment in creation of two or more equally effective access points of information, both at the central as well as at the state level.
- It is rather a question of ‘data mirroring’ and the essential question raised in the present case requires forging new practices of data management, which is in furtherance of the RBD Act as well as the RTI Act.
Source
The Hindu