Cabinet Approves Rs 3,900 Crore For Updating National Population Register
The exercise for updating the National Population Register, a list of “usual citizens” of India, will commence from April 2020.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved 3,941.35 crore for updating the National Population Register. The updating exercise will commence in April next year.
The NPR is a list of "usual residents" of the country, wherein a "usual resident" is a person who has resided in a local area for six months or more or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next six months or more.
The data for National Population Register was collected in 2010 along with the house-listing phase of Census of India 2011. The data was updated in 2015 by conducting door-to-door survey. The digitisation of the updated information has been completed.
Now it has been decided to update the National Population Register along with the house-listing phase of Census 2021 during April to September 2020 in all the states and union territories except Assam, according to the website of the Office of the Registrar General, and Census Commissioner.
A gazette notification to this effect was issued in August this year.
The NPR will be prepared at the local (village/sub-town), sub-district, district, state and national level under provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955, and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.
It is mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the NPR.
The objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country. The database would contain demographic as well as biometric particulars.