Amidst the controversy regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Registry of Citizens (NRC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the allocation for the National Population Register (NPR) to be conducted during the 2021 Census. Here is what the NPR is all about:

What is NPR?

The NPR is a register of usual residents of the country. A usual resident is defined, for the purposes of the NPR, as a person who has resided in a local area for the past six months or more, or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next six months. The NPR will be updated along with house listing and housing census from April to September 2020.