The process will not require people to submit any kind of documents, proof, or biometric. An application has been developed for the purpose and the information declared by people on the app will be considered for the register.
“Cabinet has approved the conducting of census of India 2021 and updating of National Population Register. It is self declaration, no document, bio-metric etc required for it,” said Javadekar during the Union Cabinet briefing.
“Cabinet has approved expenditure of Rs. 8,754.23 crore for the exercise of Census of India 2021 and Rs. 3,941.35 crore for updation of National Population Register,” he said.
No document, bio-metric etc will be required for it. Self declaration by people on its app will be considered,' says Prakash Javadekar.
The NPR exercise will be carried out between April and September 2020 in all states and UTs, except Assam, along with the house listing phase of the census exercise.
Assam has been excluded because the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise has already been conducted in the state.
Clearing the air linking NPR to the NRC (National Register for Citizens) Javadekar said: "Currently, there is no proposal to conduct nationwide NRC, on the basis of data collected through NPR."
The data for NPR was last collected in 2010 along with the house listing phase of the Census 2011. Updating of this data was done during 2015 by conducting door to door survey.
The NPR was discussed thoroughly at the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At the meeting, the Prime Minister also asked the ministers to reach out to masses to highlight the plight of refugees who came from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan due to religious persecution.
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Meanwhile, the cabinet also approved funds to the tune of Rs 627.40 crore for 10 projects sanctioned during 2018-19 in Swadesh Darshan Scheme. Additional Rs 1854.67 crore during 2019-20 for sanctioning of news projects.
It also approved Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL) with total outlay of Rs 6000 crore to be implemented over a period of 5 years in identified areas in Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.