Tripura will start collecting data as part of the updationof National Population Register (NPR) from May this year through mobileapplication only, even as the country has been witnessing several protestsagainst NPR, as well as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and NationalRegister of Citizens (NRC), said an official of the directorate of censusoperations.
The data for NPR would be collected as part of thecensus operation in the northeastern state.
According to reports, deployment of around 11,000 people in a team would be done for the NPR mechanism. A part of the process has already been started. In the first phase, the collection of data like the listing of houses and housing census would start in Tripura from May 16.
Director of the census operation, PK Chakraborty said that this phase would continue until June 29 and the second phase which is the real census operation will start from next year. The data collection will be done through the mobile app only, said the Director.
Of the 11,000 members, nearly 9062 would beenumerators followed by 1556 supervisors, nine principal census officersincluding other charge officers and additional charge officers.
Reports also stated that sixteen master trainers wouldtrain 169 field trainees from April 6 to 10 at Agartala.
Tripura Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar has decided to collect the data only through the app as per the Registrar General of India both the mobile app and paper schedule can be used for the first phase of NPR data collection process.
The NPR data was surveyed in the country in 2010 forthe first time and it was later updated in 2015, Chakraborty said.
