June 08, 2025 7:12 am
While the NPR is likely to be updated during the house listing phase of the Census next year, government yet to take a call on NRC
November 27, 2022 7:13 am
According to the proposed Bill, the data will also be used for updating electoral rolls, the Aadhar database, ration cards, passports and driving licenses.
November 09, 2022 9:00 am
The computer resources of all associated dependencies of the aforementioned entities have also been declared as "protected systems" under the law.
November 08, 2022 6:25 am
This is to incorporate the changes due to birth, death, and migration for which demographic and other particulars of each family and individual are to be collected.
March 13, 2022 7:06 am
In a gazette notification issued on Friday, the Centre amended Census Rules, 1990, to include “electronic form” and “self-enumeration” in the schedule of questions to be asked during census enumeration.
March 26, 2020 3:40 am
The updation of NPR was proposed to be done along with Phase I of Census 2021 in all States/UTs, except Assam, as it has already gone through the process of preparing National Register of Citizens.
March 21, 2020 1:45 pm
On Friday, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging that the NPR updation be postponed.
March 15, 2020 2:27 am
Trouble erupted in the House after Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis, while discussing budgetary grants, accused “some of the ministers” in the state of stoking fear among minorities.
March 13, 2020 8:58 am
In Delhi, the NPR updation exercise is supposed to begin on April 1 in the NDMC areas with the house-listing phase of Census 2021.
March 13, 2020 10:40 am
While Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Bihar (where BJP rules with JD-U) and Andhra Pradesh have all passed resolutions against NPR, states such as Odisha and Telangana have reservations on the questions relating to details of parents in the NPR form.