India to Start Population Register Scorned by Opposition
- Population register to be part of India’s nationwide census
- Listing to be completed between April to September 2020
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government said it will start building a comprehensive identity database of all those living in India, amid a growing public uproar over the administration’s move to grant citizenship to undocumented migrants based on religion.
The plan to create a National Population Register has been criticized by the opposition as a precursor to countrywide citizens register that, along with a new citizenship law, is driving angry protests across India.