National Population Register: Details of Parents’ Birth Not Mandatory Question, Clarifies Prakash Javadekar
The law essentially seeks to register every citizen of India and issue a national identity card
Mumbai: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, while reacting to all the rumours, informed that if a person does not share the details of his or her parents’ birth, the question will be dropped in the National Population Register, as these are not mandatory questions.
The work of updating NPR will begin from April 1, 2020, and will run until September 30, 2020. How fearful that the data collected through NPR will be used to prepare the National Register of Citizens (NRC). That questions about parents ‘birth date and parents’ location have been taken into account to determine citizenship, although Union ministers have again separated the NCR, NPR and CAA. Once again removing the apprehensions, Javadekar said that these questions are not mandatory.
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A day earlier, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said that the government may consider removing these questions from NPR. Giving clarification to that, Javadekar said that those questions will not be removed, but if one does not remember, the question will be removed.
“Even I do not know my date of birth. Will I stop being a citizen on that account? I told the Ministry of Home Affairs that these things would cause confusion. Now the ministry has revised the forms, ”Ram Vilas Paswan said earlier.
NPR is a register of ordinary residents of the country. It is being prepared at the local (village / sub-city), sub-district, state and national levels under the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. There is a provision for a fine of up to Rs 1,000 for those who violate the rules. Data for NPR were last collected in 2010 along with the House Listing Phase of the Census 2011. This data was updated during a 2015 door-to-door survey.
For the purposes of NPR, a general resident is defined as a person who has lived in a local area for the past six months or longer or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next six months is. The law essentially seeks to register every citizen of India and issue a national identity card.
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