Centre to link Aadhaar with NPR; chalks-out a budget of Rs 951 crore
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The current NPR database is set with the biometrics of 28.89 crore people. Among these, Aadhaar has been generated only for 21 crore people. Biometrics of nearly 82 crore people have been collected so far by the
The core purpose behind the entire operation is to avoid duplication in collecting biometrics and also to get a check on how many Aadhaar numbers still needs to be issued. The exercise has been approved by the home ministry while there is no Cabinet approval to its Resident Identity Card (RIC) project, which is considered to be the final step in the NPR process.
"By going door-to-door for the NPR updation exercise with pre-printed booklets, the details given by persons during the 2011 census will be crosschecked to see if the same person still lives at the address. Also, in case the person has an Aadhaar number, the same will be recorded and seeded into the existing NPR data," said the official. This is not an exercise to determine citizenship but to update NPR record of the usual residents of the country, he added.
The official further informed, "In scale, at a cost of Rs 951 crore, this is virtually a repeat of the Census exercise."
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