NPR Data Useful For Welfare Schemes, Says Home Ministry

It tells parliamentary panel that date and place of birth of parents will complete data for all households

- Vijaita Singh

The Union Home Ministry has informed a parliamentary panel that it proposes to collect details on additional questions such as “date and place of birth of parents” in the National Population Register (NPR) to “facilitate back-end data processing and making the data items of date and place of birth complete for all household[s]”.

The Ministry said there was a need to update the NPR to “incorporate the changes due to birth, death and migration”. “Aadhaar is individual data, whereas NPR contains family-wise data,” it said.

“Various welfare schemes of the State and Central governments are generally family-based, for which NPR data may be used,” it said.