The government has formed a steering committee, which will be led by Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, to oversee the activities of CRVS on recording and preparing documents of vital information of the people, to provide better services and for policy-making.
The committee will prepare and analyse strategic papers and master plan, look after the recorded data, document preparation activities and give suggestions and instructions to the officials of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS).
The Cabinet Division formed the 15 member committee, comprising secretary and senior secretaries of separate ministries and divisions, directors general of different offices and senior bureaucrats, including experts in different sectors, last Thursday.
The senior secretary of Local Government Division and secretaries of Finance Division, Economic Relations Division, Education Ministry, Statistics and Informatics Division, Information and Communication Technology Division, Planning Division, Health and Family Welfare Ministry, Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division and Election Commission Secretariat and Cabinet Division’s Secretary (coordination and reform), director generals of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and Directorate General of Health Services and project director of Birth and Death Registration Project will also be its member.
Additional Director of DGHS General Dr Abul Kalam Azad and Policy Advisor of a2i Anir Chowdhury will be authorised to attend the meetings of the committee, though they are not members of the committee, the gazette from the cabinet division said.
According to the Cabinet Division, Bangladesh has planned to develop a new national electronic database titled Civil Registration and Vital Statistics from next year to record and document vital information of the people, including health data, to provide better services and for policy-making.
The CRVS system will record information on births, deaths, marriage, poverty, migration and even social problems like early marriage.
The CRVS system will also incorporate all existing data, including electoral rolls and death and birth registration data, maintained by various agencies.
