{"id":89918,"date":"2019-12-17T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T10:12:26","slug":"west-bengal-stops-national-population-register-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/west-bengal-stops-national-population-register-work\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal stops National Population Register work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The West Bengal government has stayed all activities relating to the preparation and update of the National Population Register(NPR) due to controversy over Citizenship Amendment Act.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About National Population Register(NPR):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of usual residents of the country.<\/li><li>A usual resident is defined for the purposes of NPR as a person who has resided in a local area for the past 6 months or more or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next 6 months or more.<\/li><li>The objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country.The database would contain demographic as well as biometric particulars.<\/li><li>The NPR is being prepared at the local (Village\/sub-Town), sub-District, District, State and National level under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the NPR.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why do we need NPR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Every country must have a comprehensive identity database of its residents with relevant demographic details.It will help the government formulate its policies better and also aid national security.<\/li><li>It will also ease the life of those residing in India by cutting the red tape.<\/li><li>It will also help in implementing the idea of \u2018One Identity Card\u2019 that has been recently floated by the government.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concerns regarding NPR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The information collected during formation of NPR may be misused if safeguards to maintain privacy are inadequate.<\/li><li>The NPR has also raised anxieties around the idea of citizenship in the country.<\/li><li>Apart from privacy,concerns have also been raised over the exercise as a whole.NPR will be the base for a nationwide National Register of Citizens(NRC).<\/li><li>Hence,the NPR could also have such discrepancies as it happened during NRC exercise in Assam.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The West Bengal government has stayed all activities relating to the preparation and update of the National Population Register(NPR) due to controversy over Citizenship Amendment Act. Facts: About National Population Register(NPR): The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of usual residents of the country. 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