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National Population Register (NPR) is Register of Indian citizens. It is prepared at local, District, State & National level under provisions of Citizenship Act 1955 & Citizenship (Registration of Citizens & issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003

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It is mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the NPR. A resident is defined for the purposes of NPR as a person who has resided in a local area for past 6 months or more or a person who intends to reside in that area for next 6 months or more.
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Objectives
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.

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Demographic Particulars of NPR are as follows :

Name of person
Father’s name
Mother’s name
Spouse’s name
Sex
Date of Birth
Marital status
Place of birth
Nationality
Present address
Permanent residential address
Occupation/Activity
Educational qualification

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Present Status
Data for National Population Register was collected in 2010 alongwith houselisting phase of Census of India 2011
Updation of this data was done during 2015 by conducting door to door survey.Digitisation of updated information has been completed
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Now it has been decided to update National Population Register along with the Houselisting phase of Census 2021 during April to September 2020 in all the States/UTs except Assam.
Gazette notification to this effect has already been published by Central Govt.

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