Date, place of birth of parents are new features in the exercise
BHUBANESWAR: Come April, you need to answer when and where your parents were born. The National Population Register exercise, which has been initiated in Odisha, will have some additional questions about parents.
The data for the NPR, widely dubbed by the Opposition parties a step towards preparing the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC), will be captured between April 16 and May 31 in the State.
The NPR exercise is being taken up though the Naveen Patnaik government had earlier announced that it would not implement the NRC. Mr. Patnaik had said his government was not opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 since it deals with only foreign nationals. The West Bengal and the Kerala governments have already put the NPR exercise on hold.
Please click here to read more.