Fig 1.
Flow chart of birth and death registration in Bihar.
CRS annual report, 2020. Department of Planning and Development, Bihar, 2021. Note:- In case of birth and death registration after 30 days but within 1 year, registration is done after written permission of the prescribed authority and on the submission of an affidavit made before a notary public and payment of a late fee of rupee five (US$ 0.07). In case of registration of birth and death after an year, an order is required by a magistrate of the first class (Block Development Officer) after verifying the correctness of the event and payment a fee of rupee ten (US$ 0.14).
Fig 2.
Source- Authors generated the map using GIS.
Fig 3.
Hierarchy of Civil Registration System in Bihar.
Source- CRS annual report, 2020. Department of Planning and Development, Bihar, 2021.
Table 1.
Demographic profile of the study participants.