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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Population register date -Nishit Dholabhai

Population register date -Nishit Dholabhai

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published Published on Mar 18, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 18, 2012

Home minister P. Chidambaram has set a two-year deadline for completing the National Population Register (NPR).

In a release today, his ministry said the register was “likely to be” completed by March 2014, the statement coming a day after the Union budget announced that the Aadhaar platform was ready to support payments for projects like the rural job scheme.

Aadhaar, a project of the Planning Commission, is the unique number meant for every resident of India.

The home ministry, on its part, proposes to issue Resident Identity Cards (RIC) bearing Aadhaar numbers to all residents who are 18 years and above after collecting biometric data (fingerprints and iris scan) of all residents.

This collection of biometric data was a bone of contention between the home ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) that is under the Planning Commission. The commission and the home ministry had both been pushing the relative merits of their projects — the unique identity number (Aadhaar) and Chidambaram’s RIC smart cards — amid claims of duplication of efforts.

A compromise was reached a few months ago with the personal intervention of the Prime Minister. It was decided that both agencies would collect biometric data. However, there are still issues left to be sorted out.

The first phase of the RIC scheme, which is part of the home ministry’s NPR project, is under implementation in 3,331 coastal villages, Port Blair town, the Northeast and in Delhi.

In its release, the ministry said a proposal to “roll out” the RIC scheme in the rest of the country had been given “in-principle clearance by the Planning Commission”.

The Telegraph has learnt that an expenditure finance committee meeting has been scheduled for March 23 at the finance ministry to consider a Rs 5,000-crore budget for the RIC proposal.

Under the NPR project, the demographic data of more than a billion people has been collected through house-to-house enumeration. Scanning of all filled-in NPR forms has also been completed.

“The details required for the NPR has therefore been collected,” the ministry release said.

The next step involves creating a digital database and collection of the biometric data, which is now in progress. “The entire work (of collecting the data) is expected to be completed by mid-2013,” the release said. After the collection the data will be compiled.

The home ministry has already completed collecting biometric data of more than 1.4 crore people.

Mukherjee has given the go-ahead to the UIDAI to take up 40 crore more enrolments in addition to the 20 crore already done. The finance minister proposed to allocate “adequate funds” for the extended exercise starting from April 1.

The Telegraph, 18 March, 2012, http://telegraphindia.com/1120318/jsp/nation/story_15264603.jsp


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