The Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner is responsible for civil registration as well as the production of vital statistics. The Ministry of Health supports the civil registration system providing incentives for registration, manpower and logistics support under the National Health Mission. 
There is no birth registration fee within the prescribed period of 21 days, although fees are prescribed for birth certificates and they vary according to state/local body.

 The Indian national CRVS coordination mechanism was established  in August 2015, while a national CRVS strategy and a comprehensive assessment are still in progress. In 2011, the Office of the Registrar General identified several challenges such as, lack of awareness regarding the need and importance of registration, low priority accorded to the system of civil registration by the states, lack of coordination among the concerned departments and low level of reporting by registration units. 

To tackle these issues, several initiatives have been taken. For example, legal items are now separated from statistical ones reducing the number of forms from 21 to 13, a more efficient coordination mechanism has been established and a nationwide database of medical institutions has been prepared. Also, a software application for online and offline registration of birth and death has been developed, this application covers the entire gamut of the civil registration system:  registration of events, generation of certificates, and generation of statistical tables and reports. The application, available in English, has been translated into 13 Indian languages and it is being implemented across all states. 
In addition, a new project on data digitization is being implemented, with the support of UNICEF, to keep old records in easy to retrieve digital form has started. This will help in storage of registers in electronic format and allow easy access to the records.