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This was disclosed during the National Annual Conference of Chief Registrars of Births & Deaths which got underway in New Delhi on Thursday. Despite these numbers, the level of registration in the country is 68 per cent for births and 63 per cent for deaths. Registrar General of India D.K.Sikri said that National Population Policy 2000 has mandated cent per cent level of registration of births and deaths by 2010.
Excluding Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the registration of birth in the country is 82.5 percent and that of deaths 72 percent. The total number of registration units in the country is 2.55 lakh in which 18.6 million births and 5.28 million deaths were registered during 2006, it was stated during the conference.
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