Online birth registration further increasing public suffering?

The new online birth registration programme is ongoing. This time the citizens are to get new 17-digit registration numbers instead of the old 16-digit ones.

There are several unanswered questions regarding the new birth registration programme, as the previous programme failed in 2011. At that time, about 6 crore and 80 lakh certificates could not be uploaded to the server.

Is it going to be the same this time? What are the government's plans to save people from the hassles of online registration? Why are there incidents of people not getting their certificates on time?

In Straight from Star Newsroom, Debjani Shyama discusses the complications regarding birth certificates with The Daily Star freelance reporter Md Shahnawaz Khan Chandan.