The local government, rural development and cooperatives minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Sunday emphasised birth registration for successful future planning of the country.
He was addressing a discussion marking 5th Birth Registration Day 2011 at the public library auditorium in Dhaka.
The minister said that at present about 95 per cent people of the country had received birth registrations as the government had started the birth and death registration projects since 2001 with the financial help of UNICEF.
Without adequate birth information of the citizens, a nation could not go further for future planning, like education and healthcare, he observed.
Syed Ashraful Islam told the discussion that the government would gradually digitalised every service sector of the country, including voting, with a view to making difficult tusks easy.
He illustrated the examples of the difficult tasks as property inheritance and prevention of child marriages.
'Now the government had started online birth registration and information on more than 1.8 crore people was saved in a database,' he said, adding that the online registration was going on in 29 districts and would be started at the rest of the districts soon.
He said the government also took initiatives for the expatriate Bangladeshis so that they could obtain birth registration.
He also said the Bio-metric registration would be started afterward.
Syed Mahbub Hasan, additional secretary of local government division, expressed his dissatisfaction over differences in certificate and real birth dates of most of the people.
UNICEF Bangladesh country director Carel de Rooy said marginal children were yet to get the birth certificates without any fee.
Source : New Age
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