The Union government on Tuesday set up a high-level committee on demographic changes taking place because of allegedly “illegal immigration and other abnormal reasons”.
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The panel, which will report to the Union home ministry, will study the nature, causes and consequences of demographic changes “occurring across the country”. It will also recommend policy, administrative and legal measures.
This committee will submit its report within one year, the government said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in a social media post that “unnatural demographic change” caused by “illegal infiltration and other reasons” constitutes a big challenge for any country.
“Demographic change is a serious problem linked not only to our sovereignty but also to national security, law and order, major changes in social structure, and the protection of tribal societies,” Shah said on social media.
The panel will analyse the “patterns of abnormal population changes at the level of religious and social communities” and will present solutions to address the problem, he added.
The committee will be chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar.
It will include the census commissioner, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra, former Bureau of Police Research and Development chief Balaji Srivastava and Shamika Ravi, who is a member of the prime minister's Economic Advisory Council.
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