Modi making a U-turn on Biometric National Population Register?

June 19, 2014 22:54

The Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties has submitted to the Minister of Home Affairs that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had opposed biometric National Population Register in his letter to Dr Manmohan Singh on October 6, 2011.

The forum argued that MHA's support for 12 digit biometric aadhaar number generating NPR makes Indians worse than prisoners, violates Citizenship Act, Census Act and constitutional rights. The forum has demanded to know why Modi had opposed biometric NPR.

The MHA's must explain as how is India's NPR for identity cards different from Identity Cards that has been abandoned in UK. There is a need to guard against ID Card cartels and learn from the fate of such databases in Egypt, Pakistan and Greece. It must set up a committee to examine why countries like China, Australia and France abandoned such ID projects.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday reviewed the scheme of the National Population Register (NPR), and directed officials to take the project to its logical conclusion.

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