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A legislation of compulsory registration of
Births&Deaths all over the country was passed in 1969 by the Government of
India namely “Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969".
Nagaland legislative assembly adopted this act ( Act No. 18 of 1969) notified through Gazette notification Vide No.STAT/p-33/69
dated 24.06.1972.This Act came into effect from 18 Aug 1972.Under this Act Registration of Births&Deaths at the place of occurrence is
compulsory.
The Department of Economics&Statistics has been implementing this scheme since 01.08.1974 with the Development
Commissioner as the Chief Registrar of Births&Deaths, Addl.Director of
Eco&Stat as Joint Chief Registrar of Births&Deaths, Deputy Commissioner
of every district as District Chief Registrar of Births&Deaths, District
Statistical Officer as District Registrar of Births&Deaths and Block
Development Officers as circle Registrar of Births&Deaths.
With the passage of time, Government of India introduced Model Rules 1999 and directed all State/UT w.e.f from 01.01.2000, This
Model Rule 1999 was approved by the Govt of Nagaland and notified through the Gazette Notification No.12 dated
30.09.2000.This empowers the VDB Secretaries of every village as the Registrars of Births&;Deaths w.e.f 01.06.2000 in
the rural areas. as per 2001, No of registrars are as follows
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