No Proof For NPR, To Be Held With Census In 2021: Prakash Javdekar
Assam has been kept out of this process
Mumbai: Information and Technology Minister Mr Prakash Javdekar while addressing a press conference said that National Population Register will be held in the year 2021, along with the Census.
Government of India today approved a budget of Rs. 8,754.23 crores for Census and Rs. 3,941.35 crore for NPR. NPR is a list of ‘usual residents’ of the country. This data was collected from a door-to-door survey in 2015. Now that it’s decided to update the digitally in 2021.
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During Assam, NRC people had to prove their ancestry from 1971, so while asked about documents needed in NPR, the minister said that there will be no need of documents, no forms for NPR, people will just have to self-certify themselves through a mobile app.
There is resentment amongst the political parties regarding NRC, so to put an end on this Javdekar said that “NPR has nothing to do with NRC. It was a good move, first started in 2010 by the UPA government. We are just carrying it forward. The NRC was not mentioned in the cabinet meeting.”
As the decennial census is to be carried in two phases, first House listing and housing census and second Population Enumeration. NPR will be carried out along with the first phase.
States as West Bengal, Kerala and Rajasthan have declined to carry out NPR. They have said they won’t facilitate NPR in preparation of NRC whereas Assam has been kept out of this process.
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