The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has actually informed a Parliamentary panel that it proposes to gather information on extra concerns such as “date and birthplace of parents” in the National Population Register (NPR) to “help with back end information processing and making the information items of date and birthplace complete for all household[s]”.
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Responding to a question by parliamentary committee members on the new concerns in the NPR kind, MHA authorities sent that “throughout the updation of NPR 2020, it is proposed to gather information on some additional products like place of last home, mother tongue, Aadhaar number (voluntary), mobile number, passport (Indian passport holder), citizen ID card, driving license number, date and birthplace of dad and mom”, according to the panel’s report positioned in Parliament on Thursday.
The NPR questionnaire utilized in 2010 and 2015 had 14 columns. The last NPR form for the year 2020 has actually not been revealed yet.
On the reasoning behind gathering det