{"id":7639,"date":"2022-11-09T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:28:05","slug":"national-population-register-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-population-register-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"National Population Register (NPR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Population Register (NPR):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The National Population Register (NPR) is a register of usual residents of the country.<\/li>\n<li>It includes both Indian citizens as well as a foreign citizen.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003, a usual resident is 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>\n<li>It 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Timeline:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The first National Population Register was prepared in 2010 and updation of this data was done during 2015 by conducting door to door survey.<\/li>\n<li>The next update of the NPR will take place next year from April to September 2020 in all the States\/UTs except Assam along with the Houselisting phase of the Census 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Details required for NPR:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The demographic details of every individual are required on 21 points which includes &#8216;date and place of birth of parents&#8217;, last place of residence, Permanent Account Number (PAN), Aadhar (on a voluntary basis), Voter ID card number, Driving License Number and Mobile Number.<\/li>\n<li>In the last NPR done in 2010, the data was collected on the 15 points and it did not include &#8216;date and place of birth of parents&#8217; and last place of residence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GH9AG2218.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of the NPR was to create a comprehensive identity database of every resident in the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}