-The Hindu Data on parents’ place of birth to be gathered; register already has Data of 119 crore residents The Narendra Modi government proposes to update the existing National Population Register, which already has an electronic database of more than 119 crore residents, by verifying the details of all respondents through house-to-house enumeration, according to an official manual on conducting the fresh NPR exercise. The NPR exercise has become controversial because the Citizenship...
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Amit Shah says no NPR-NRC link, his Govt linked it 9 times in House -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express "I assure all the people, specially from the minorities, that NPR is not going to be used for NRC. It’s a rumour,” Amit Shah said. Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday drew a distinction between the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) saying both were governed by different laws and NPR Data would never be used for the NRC exercise. In an interview to...
More »Data from various international & national sources contradict the narrative that immigrants & refugees have flooded the country in recent years
Against the backdrop of National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC), which is expected to be conducted nationwide, there are media reports about detention centres being constructed in various parts of the country. Although media reports indicate the Government denying any connection between NRIC and National Population Register, a reply to unstarred question no 4380 (to be answered on 21st April 2015 in the Lok Sabha) by the Minister of State...
More »Claims versus Reality: Who benefits from government funded health insurance? -Ankur Verma
-Macroscan.org Data from the recent survey show that health insurance coverage in India has not expanded at all between 2014 and 2018. Moreover, the benefits of health insurance disproportionately accrue to relatively richer households while the poor are left high and dry. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Amount owed by insurers to farmers at all-time high -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times PMFBY has run into many of the old problems. The one most troubling issue for farmers is a continuous delay in payouts. The average delay in payment of claims, according to official data, is more than a year from the date of harvest. When the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the country’s flagship crop insurance scheme was launched in June 2016, the idea was to replace complicated, multiple insurance...
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