INDIAN POLITY

National Population Register (NPR)
▪ The Union government informed Lok Sabha that no decision has been taken to update the National Population Register (NPR) during the upcoming 2027 Census.
National Population Register (NPR)
▪ First created in 2010.
▪ Updated in 2015–16.
▪ Collected alongside the House Listing and Housing Census (HLO) in 2011.
▪ As per the Citizenship Rules, 2003, NPR is the first step towards creating a National Register of Citizens (NRC).
▪ It is an effort by the Indian government to identify and deport illegal immigrants as mandated by the Citizenship Act of 1955, Foreigners Act of 1946 and Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920.
▪ The only time a nation-wide NRC was created was in 1951 after the Census of 1951.
▪ At present, only Assam has such a National Register of Citizens, mandated and monitored by the Supreme Court in 2014.
▪ The nodal agency for the NRC is the Registrar General and Census Commissioner.