Seven months after launch of facility, nearly 48% of weddings under The Hindu Marriage Act are registered online in Karnataka

The online facility to provide ease to those registering marriages based on Aadhaar authentication was introduced in February.

In just about seven months after the launch of the online marriage registration facility, nearly 48% of the registrations under The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, in Karnataka have been done online. While online registration in a number of districts outstripped the offline registration at sub-registrar’s offices, in some districts offline registration continues to remain popular.

The online facility to provide ease to those registering marriages based on Aadhaar authentication was introduced in February. Since then, as many as 33,059 marriages out of the total 69,456 marriages registered under the Hindu Marriage Act in Karnataka were done online, according to data from the office of the Inspector-General of Registration and Commissioner of Stamps.

Aadhaar authentication is used to make the process robust and prevent identity impersonation and fraudulent registration as per Rule 5 of the Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation Knowledge) Rules, 2020, under the Aadhaar Act, 2016.

For marriages to be registered under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, the application process has been made online. But, the couple will have to visit the sub-registrar’s office to register the marriage. As many as 2,905 marriages were registered under the Special Marriages Act in the same period.

Of the total 3,412 special marriages of other forms (delayed registration of marriage), 466 have been done online.

In all, 75,803 marriages were registered in Karnataka between February and August, of which 33,525 were registered online.

In Bengaluru, the online registration of marriages under The Hindu Marriage Act outnumbered the marriage registration in the sub- registrar’s office. Of the total 10,063 marriages registered across five registration districts of Basavanagudi, Gandhinagar, Jayanagar, Rajajinagar, and Shivajinagar, 7,434 were registered online.