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According to the Registrar General's Department, it was reported that a proposal has been tendered to remove the 'ethnicity from the birth certificate.
Registrar General Prabath Abeywardane said Sinhala, Tamil, Burgher, Muslim, Malay, and Indian origins are currently used in the birth certificate, will be removed from the document.
He points out that this proposal has been presented considering the issues prevalent in the society itself as well as the issues faced internationally, and there have been objections to the removal of nationality from various parties.
Steps have been taken to make some other amendments to the birth certificate according to the internationally accepted norms. Accordingly, a birth certificate can be obtained in one's mother tongue, but steps have been taken to issue it in Sinhala, Tamil and English languages in the future.
"Therefore, there would be no need to translate the document again when going abroad. The Registrar General said, it contains some safety provisions and that steps have been taken to add the National Identity Card (NIC) number, which is given at birth, to the NIC issued when a person turns 15 years.
Nevertheless, nationality could be included if desired. The information about the father and the parents' marital status will not be included.
As the society has seen several issues with this, it has been removed, and the birth certificate will be released as a single page.
Currently, the program is being conducted as a pilot project in seven Divisional Secretariat offices. Next year, steps will be taken to issue the new national birth certificate in 100 divisional secretariat offices, the Registrar General said.
The new birth certificate will be simplified by preventing surfacing of fake birth certificates, eliminating the need for translation, and removing details about whether the parents had been married or not.
Accordingly, Abeywardane said these efforts will be made to provide an internationally recognized new birth certificate to the Sri Lankan citizens in the future. (Indika Sri Aravinda)
Siri de Alwis Monday, 21 November 2022 04:31 PM
No country in the world will accept this document without the nationality!
Jayantha Monday, 21 November 2022 04:36 PM
Thank god, we don't have children!!!
Ganesh Monday, 21 November 2022 04:37 PM
This is most welcome. We don't need to discriminate people, based on their religion, race or cast and even if the person is illegitimate child or not. Had this been done several decades ago, a lot of the problems we faced as country may have been avoided.
sunil Monday, 21 November 2022 04:48 PM
was it Diana who made this request to remove Nationality
don Monday, 21 November 2022 04:49 PM
Lets see what our Sinhala Buddhist intellectual WW has to say
Nesam Monday, 21 November 2022 05:15 PM
Good Move! They are going to omit the ''Ethnicity'' of the person, not the Nationality. An individual born in Sri Lanka will be a Sri Lankan National.
Shelly Belly Monday, 21 November 2022 05:19 PM
Nationality is Sri Lankan, Indian, British and so on (the country in which the citizenship is claimed). Nationality is NOT the same as race which is Sinhalese, Tamil, Burgher, Malay (which is ethnicity). The birth certificate should require race and nationality as it pertains to the identity of a person born in Sri Lanka especially if both or either parent is a non-Sri Lankan national or mixed race.
Shelly Belly Monday, 21 November 2022 05:19 PM
Nationality is Sri Lankan, Indian, British and so on (the country in which the citizenship is claimed). Nationality is NOT the same as race which is Sinhalese, Tamil, Burgher, Malay (which is ethnicity). The birth certificate should require race and nationality as it pertains to the identity of a person born in Sri Lanka especially if both or either parent is a non-Sri Lankan national or mixed race.
Dee Monday, 21 November 2022 05:19 PM
Nationality is 'Sri Lankan'. What's wrong with that?
Mike Revere Monday, 21 November 2022 06:00 PM
Birth certificate should include nationality as SL and ethnicity too for identity. Must be in English and other 2 languages for travel. Religion can change and is not necessary to include as some have God and others have rebirth and even nation change,
Karalasingam Sivalingam Monday, 21 November 2022 06:36 PM
First step towards equality, and to do away with racial basis for education, employment etc;,
Tamil Monday, 21 November 2022 06:39 PM
When there is not a single Tamil in the Sri Lankan cricket team, when the Sri Lankan military officers are almost 100% Sinhalese When the Sri Lankan diplomats are almost 100% Sinhalese, then for the Sri Lankan government to turnaround and say that we are all the same, there is no difference between different ethnic groups, we are all just Sri Lankans, is a bloody joke !
Learn English Monday, 21 November 2022 06:42 PM
Can the original certificate be issued in ENGLISH ?English will be taught from grade one next year. If needed one can get a Sinhala or Tamil translation later.
Sandy Monday, 21 November 2022 06:49 PM
The problem is when a person may pretend to be another ethnicity to marry and then force to convert to another religion
Ranjit Monday, 21 November 2022 07:08 PM
#alwis - nationality and ethnicity are two different things. nationality is SriLankan where as ethnicity can be either Sinhalese Tamil burgher etc BC and other documents will have the nationality as SriLankan which all countries will accept those documents. No one needs ethnicity which is the cause for all problems The day we all think of Sri lankans and not as Sinhalese tamils etc is the day when we will progress. Our politicians will not allow that to happen because they use the ethnicity card to win votes and then steal the wealth of our country
L De Silva Monday, 21 November 2022 07:13 PM
In American people are still identified by their Race!! Black White Hispanic Asian etc etc Shocking isn't it for a country that tears into us at anytime given excuse to push its agenda down our throat claiming democracy freedom and human rights!! ??? These While Invader Settlers should go stand in front of a mirror before preaching nonsense to others!!
Ali baba Monday, 21 November 2022 07:24 PM
About time. Sinhalese are really Indian immigrants anyways. Now all are truly Sri Lankan
Priyantha77 Monday, 21 November 2022 07:34 PM
Very good move, remove race
Mohan Monday, 21 November 2022 07:59 PM
@Dee: If the nationality is included and the person obtains citizenship of another country that doesn't allow dual citizenship, then the birth certificate becomes erroneous.
Dee Monday, 21 November 2022 10:50 PM
If I'm correct, dual citizenship is given to persons from a different country (nationality) not to - burgher, Sinhala, Tamil, Moslem or Hindu. Some other countries won't even recognize the words which we say as 'nationality' cause they mean a mere race/religion or in our majority case , a mix of it!
Learn Monday, 21 November 2022 08:18 PM
High time this is done. Sri Lanka identify a person by RACE not by citizen.
Aditya Pathirage Monday, 21 November 2022 08:19 PM
Discrimination and ethnicity are two different matters. If one needs to discriminate somebody they will find thousand basis for that. No . one to eliminate discrimination is between the rulers and public and between bureaucrats and public and so on. But eliminating fathers name have serious repercussions. How does one prove inheritance of father's property.
Lam Monday, 21 November 2022 09:23 PM
Every thing has changed in the world but the format of Sri Lankan birth and death and marriage certificates are still in stone age formats. Why do you to need all like this on old fashion...give from time to have all those certificate either in English or Sinhala or Tamil ..
JuniorCitizen Monday, 21 November 2022 11:35 PM
Most of the people over here can't tell the difference between Nationality, Race
Sampath Gamvasam Tuesday, 22 November 2022 02:05 AM
Really good idea. Or put as Sri Lankan as the race.
Joseph de Silva Tuesday, 22 November 2022 02:30 AM
Looks like many of the commentators do not know Nationality and Ethinicity are different. Other than in backward countries the ethinicity is not identified in BC. For example the birth certificate of my grandson says he is only a New Zealander.
DOT Tuesday, 22 November 2022 04:46 AM
Good move, better late than never !
Lumbini Tuesday, 22 November 2022 07:18 AM
Good move.
saf Tuesday, 22 November 2022 12:09 PM
it seems Nationality only will be mentioned in the birth certificate, no race or riligon will be mentioned , good initiative, we must say we are srilanks only, no need muslim , buddist or hindu, riligion is a matter of personal believe .
LankanLover Tuesday, 22 November 2022 12:30 PM
So now we can really say 'We are all Sri Lankans" I see this as a good move!
DAR Tuesday, 22 November 2022 02:49 PM
issue it in English and good quality A4 size paper. current one looks like biblical scroll. Purpose of a birth certificate is to identify place you were born, your parents and siblings. that's all needed.
sach Wednesday, 23 November 2022 08:12 AM
So the demand for ethnicity based separate states and laws, disappear with this?
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