THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Birth and death registrations in the state have touched a new height. The registration clock, which updates every single birth and death in the state each day, has made the Kerala the first state in the country to gather quality online data on civil registrations.The registration clock is the latest entry to the web initiatives of the Local Self-Governance Department under the Sevana Service (www.cr.lsgkerala.gov.in). It is the Information Kerala Mission (IKM) that offers the technical support to maintain the clock. It might not tick away each minute to a new entry but the central data base in IKM records registrations as and when updated through the 400 odd hospital kiosks across the state. Plus the data added by the local bodies through their online mechanisms help IKM compile the data. This is then updated to the registration clock. “The registration clock is an international concept and we are probably the first state to think of compiling such a data at one point. It will prove useful for local bodies in planning and to health experts for analysis of any sort,” said M Shamsuddin, IKM Director said.According to technical experts in IKM, the data will give answers to any number of questions to a health analyst such as the hospital, where most number of births happen, the panchayat where child birth happens once in a blue moon or the district that shows an uphill graph in still births and so on.Click on the map of the state attached to the link and the data - which includes birth, death, total registrations and events that happened in hospitals and elsewhere - appears alongside. While updates are more prompt in Corporation and municipal areas, online updation in certain panchayats are yet to reach the benchmark which might bring a short delay in the upgradation of figures in the registration clock, sources said.
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