Be careful while preparing NPR: Chidambaram tells DMs

New Delhi, March 4 (PTI) The Indian government Thursday
asked district magistrates posted along the Indo-Bangla border
to guard against people from across the border who may try to
enroll their names in the National Population Register(NPR).
Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram said there have been
some instances in border areas where people from across the
border have tried to get themselves enrolled in the NPR, which
will be updated across the country beginning April one.
"There is a danger, mostly in Indo-Bangla border --
people crossing over and get enumerated in the NPR," he said
addressing the All India Conference on National Population
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The Indo-Bangla border is 4095 km-long.
The enumeration exercise will cover all 35 states and
Union Territories and the country's 1.2 billion citizens
living in 7,742 towns, 6,08,786 villages and 24 crore
households involving 25 lakh government employees.
The Indian Home Minister said there are 3,331 border
towns and villages where the problem may arise.
"Obviously, any inflated enumeration will take place
only in land border. We are not talking about east or west
coast. We are talking about the Indo-Myanmar border and Indo-
Bangladesh border," he said.
Chidambaram said the other side of the Indo-Myanmar
border is very thinly populated.
"So, the really danger is in the Indo-Bangla border.
We are cautioning our field officers to be careful while
enumerating in Indo-Bangla border," he said. (MORE) PTI