1. The Registrar-General of India's (RGI) Civil Registration System (CRS) is linked to the National Population Register (NPR), which includes a database of 119 crore people. 

2. The NPR, which was first gathered in 2010 and updated in 2015 with Aadhaar, mobile phone, and ration card numbers, needed to be updated "to account the changes owing to birth, death, and migration," according to the Union Home Ministry's Annual Report. 

3. The NPR will be updated with information from the decennial Census, which has been delayed indefinitely owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

4. According to the report, the CRS system is experiencing delays and under-coverage of births and deaths due to timeliness, efficiency, and uniformity issues. 

5. The Government of India has decided to introduce transformational changes in the country's Civil Registration System through an IT [information technology]-enabled backbone, leading to real-time birth and death registration with minimal human intervention, in order to address the system's challenges in providing prompt service delivery to the public.

1. Automating the process will be beneficial in-service delivery, which will become time bound, uniform and free from discretion. 

2. These changes would be sustainable, Scalable and independent of location. 

3. It will reduce the issuance of fake birth and death certificates.

Registrar-General of India

The Government of India established the Registrar General of India in 1961 under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

It organises, performs, and analyses India's demographic surveys, such as the Census of India and the Linguistic Survey of India.

A public officer with the rank of Joint Secretary is normally appointed to the job of Registrar.

In India, the Civil Registration System (CRS) is a single mechanism for documenting vital events (births, deaths, stillbirths) and their characteristics in a continuous, permanent, mandatory, and universal manner.

For socioeconomic planning, data provided by a thorough and up-to-date CRS is critical.

It's a list of country's usual residents.

A "usual resident of the nation" is someone who has lived in a given place for at least the previous six months or plans to stay there for the future six months.

The Citizenship Act of 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules of 2003 are being used to create the NPR.

Every "usual resident of India" is required to register with the NPR.

The NPR data was originally gathered in 2010 as part of Census 2011's house listing phase.

This information was updated in 2015 by completing a door-to-door survey.

However, in recent years, the NPR has taken a backseat as Aadhaar has become the primary mechanism for transferring government benefits.