{"id":104739,"date":"2020-07-22T16:45:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104739"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T23:45:11","slug":"sri-lanka-to-do-away-with-race-religion-and-marital-status-of-parents-in-birth-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/22\/sri-lanka-to-do-away-with-race-religion-and-marital-status-of-parents-in-birth-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to do away with race, religion and marital status of parents in birth certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Many children are reportedly facing issues due to details of the marriage of parents, especially when enrolling a child in school.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo, July 22 (newsfirst\/newswire): Sri Lanka\u2019s Registrar General\u2019s Department says all new Birth Certificates will be issued as Sri Lankan\u201d and will not refer to any race or religion, Newsfirst reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registrar General N. C. Vithanage further said details pertaining to Marriage and Ethnic Group will also be removed from the Application Form for the registration of a birth in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many children in the country are reportedly facing issues due to the details of the marriage of parents, especially when enrolling a child in school.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vithanage further said the much-awaited Digital Birth Certificate will be issued following the conclusion of the 2020 General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new system, a 12-digit serial number is to be issued for all new birth certificates and this serial number can be used to obtain a NIC when a child completes 15 years of age, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registrar General N. C. Vithanage said the digital birth certificate will come with a QR Code, a Bar Code, a dedicated watermark to meet international standards and to counter forged documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A system is already in place to launch the new birth certificates, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Many children are reportedly facing issues due to details of the marriage of parents, especially when enrolling a child in school. Colombo, July 22 (newsfirst\/newswire): Sri Lanka\u2019s Registrar General\u2019s Department says all new Birth Certificates will be issued as Sri Lankan\u201d and will not refer to any race or religion, Newsfirst reported Registrar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}