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[Taha Mehmood]

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Census to keep citizens' biometric records: Patil

24 April, 2008

New Delhi: After the successful completion of a pilot project on a
multi-purpose identity card, the Government is planning to dovetail
the preparation of a National Population Register (NPR) with the 2011
Census, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said today.

"The data in the NPR will have specified characteristics of each
individual. The photograph and finger biometrics will be added
subsequent to the census," Patil said at a two-day data users'
Conference for the 2001 Census.

He also said that the creation of a NPR would usher in an era of
register-based census in the country. This would help in having
estimates of population on a real-time basis by combining it with the
system of registration of births and deaths in the country.

Patil kicked off the process for conducting India's next official
census, the largest administrative exercise in the world involving
some billion-plus people. (IANS)