Action Taken Report Pr. 23rd Idcc Mtg - 30.3

Action taken report on the proceedings of 23rd IDCC Meeting held on 30.03.2009 Sl.No.

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Decisions of the meeting

Agenda 1 Status of Registration of Births and Deaths: (1) Involving Anganawadi workers and ANMs in the registration process:

The Deputy Chief Registrar explained about the methodology followed to assess the level of reporting and recording efficiency as per the guidelines of the Registrar General of Census. For the year 2007 the level of registration of births was 91% and the level of registration of deaths was 94% as against 87% and 95% for births and deaths respectively in the year 2006. In the rural areas the main problem for registration of births and deaths was that the Village Accountants who are the registrars at the village level are often not available. After discussions it was decided that the best way to overcome the problem was to avail of the services of Anganawadi workers, ANMs and ASHA workers (where there are no Anganawadi workers and ANMs) to give information to the Village Accountants of birth and death events. If this is to be achieved the ANMs and Anganawadi workers have to supplied with the printed forms and given training regularly with regard to the significance of the Civil Registration System (CRS) and the manner of filling up of the forms. The Taluk Level Coordination Committee (TLCC) and the District Level Coordination Committee (DLCC) should decide the dates every month when the Village

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Accountants should be present in the villages and register the births and deaths on the basis of the information and filled in forms given to them by the ANMs or Anganawadi workers. The functioning of the Anganawadi workers and ANMs with regard to the Civil Registration System should be discussed and reviewed in the sectoral level meetings held by the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) at the PHC every month and the problems if any should be placed before the TLCC and the DLCC. The Village Accountants will however continue to register births and deaths on the basis of information given to them by parents, etc and, as registrars, they are ultimately responsible for the proper registration and reporting of births and deaths. 2. Classification of districts by performance in CRS: The Chairman expressed surprise that Udupi, Chickmagalur, Bangalore Rural and Bangalore Urban districts had been classified as districts where the level of registration of births and deaths as well as the reporting was poor. On the other hand, certain districts in North Karnataka which otherwise fared poorly on all parameters are shown as doing reasonably well in the CRS. After discussion it was felt that this was probably due to applying the State average of the Sample Registration Scheme (SRS)

figures of births and deaths uniformly across the State. Since the birth and death rates in Udupi, Chickmagalur, etc were less than the State average, the figures registered and reported would also be less. It may therefore not be correct to label the implementation of the CRS as ‘poor’ in districts such as Udupi. On the other hand, it is necessary for the Directorate of Economics and Statistics to analyse the statistical data which they collect and do sample checks wherever necessary to corroborate. It was decided that the Directorate of Economics and Statistics should do a study of the CRS in Udupi district in order to check whether all the birth and death events are recorded and reported. The manner in which this recording and reporting is done should also be studied.