Digital birth certificates for babies born in August

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Department of Registration of Persons has started issuing a digital birth certificate, the National Birth Certificate in the digital format.

Registrar General Prabhath Abeywardena said that the birth certificate will be issued for the children who were born from 1st of August 2022. 

The Registrar General said that the digital birth certificate program will be implemented across the island in the future.

He pointed out that the number associated with the baby in the digital birth certificate will be their National Identity Card number when they are of 15 years of age.

The program has been implemented across 6 Divisional Secretariat Divisions, and the Registrar General stated that the certificate will be issued in two languages, Sinhala-Tamil or English- Tamil, in order to enable translations.