What is the full form of NPR?

NPR: National Population Register

In India, The full form of NPR is “National Population Register“. It is a Register of usual residents of the country. It is mandatory for every usual resident of India to register in the National Population Register (NPR). The Union Cabinet on 24 December 2019 approved the proposal to make it more relevant by reviewing the NPR linked to the census. The Census Commission has said that the objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every “usual resident” of the country. 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. The objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country. The first National Population Register was prepared in 2010 and updating this data was done during 2015 by conducting door to door survey.

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