Key Cabinet meet today, likely to discuss National Population Register, Census 2021

Reports say
that the Union Cabinet is scheduled to meet at 10.30 am today to discuss
several policy matters, including a proposal to allocate funds for updating the
National Population Register.

The NPR is a
list of “usual residents” of the country. A “usual
resident” is defined for the purposes of NPR as a person who has resided
in a local area for the past 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 upgradation of this data was done during
2015 by conducting door to door survey.

Now the
government plans to conduct data collection for an updated National Population
Register along with the Houselisting phase of Census 2021 during April to
September 2020.