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Citizens can skip question on place of birth of parents in NPR form, says Centre
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- The RGI and the Home Ministry had convened a day-long conference to discuss the modalities to be adopted during the house-listing phase of Census 2021 and the NPR.
- During the meeting, presentations were given on the objectives of the Census and the NPR exercises and their benefits and on the use of mobile app, which will be used in the Census for the first time.
- Voluntary and not Mandatory: RGI and other Home Ministry officials told the State representatives that respondents could skip the questions in NPR if they wanted and answering them was not mandatory but ‘voluntary’, a senior government official said.
- Census Exercise:
(1) 2 Phases: The decennial Census exercise will be conducted in two phases — House Listing and Housing Census from April to September 2020 and Population Enumeration from February 9 to February 28, 2021.
(2) The Centre had proposed that the next phase of NPR will be conducted along with the Census exercise between April and September 2020.
- Protest against CAA and NRC:
(1) Since CAA was passed by Parliament on Dec 11, widespread protests have taken place against the Act and the NRC.
(2) It allows citizenship on the basis of religion to undocumented non-Muslim communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
(3) There are apprehensions and fear that the Act followed by a country-wide NRC will benefit non-Muslims excluded from the citizens’ register, while excluded Muslims will have to prove their citizenship.
(4) The government has denied that CAA and NRC are linked.
- New NPR form is yet to be finalised and notified.
(1) The ‘pretest’ or the trial form collected details from 30 lakh respondents last year on 21 parameters, seeking specific details on “place of birth of father and mother, last place of residence” along with other information like Aadhaar (optional), voter ID card, mobile phone and driving licence numbers.
(2) The new NPR form, for the first time, is also expected to collect information on “mother tongue.”