With just over a month for the National Population Register (NPR) exercise to begin, the NPR Division of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), in response to a Right to Information query, has indicated that certain aspects of the exercise are still being finalised. These include a provision to assure respondents that the enumerator has entered … Read more
A PIL petition was filed in the Telangana High Court, seeking stay on a stipulation by the State Bank of India that all its customers should present a ‘letter issued by the National Population Register as part of updating KYC. The petition filed by lawyer Khaja Aijazuddin is likely to come up for hearing in … Read more
The Indian Association of Lawyers (IAL), in a resolution at its 10th national conference here on Monday, condemned what it called ‘the sinister project of discrimination and division meticulously designed and interwoven through dovetailing of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).’ According to a release, the IAL … Read more
The Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) has submitted representations to several legislators, urging them not to embark on a National Population Register exercise. In a press release, Dr. Talha Fayazuddin, president, SIO, said that while the Cabinet meeting against CAA is a welcome move, the NPR is the ‘back end’ of the National Register of Citizens, … Read more
Women Alliance Against NPR, a women’s group protesting CAA, NRC and NPR, has urged the Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao to refuse data collection for National Population Register in the State, and to pass a resolution to that effect in the State Assembly. Through a press conference on Thursday, members of the alliance also demanded that … Read more