‘LET’S DEFERTHE NRC TILL 2024’
Q What’s the logic behind the NPR? Why did you start it in 2010?
The Citizenship Act, passed in 1955 and amended by Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government in 2003, contemplates an NPR. Inherently, there is nothing wrong with it. One needs to know the population of the country and who the usual residents are. It is an aid to the census. It so happened that in 2010, when we were ready to do the NPR and the Census was due the year after, the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner
