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Door-to-door survey in 5 coastal mandals soon

Staff Reporter

Exercise aimed at preparing National Population Register

Those figuring in NPR will be given identity cards
Population registration taken up in 12 coastal mandals

Kakinada: A door-to-door survey of households is set to be taken up in five coastal mandals – Kakinada rural, U. Kotthapalli, Tallarevu, Thondangi and Karapa – from October 21 for the purpose of compiling the National Population Register (NPR). Those who figure in the NPR will be issued identity cards as per the NPR policy.

The NPR is aimed at keeping a permanent record of people living in coastal areas, which are increasingly vulnerable to sea-borne terrorist attacks. In any such eventuality, identifying those who might cooperate with the anti-national elements becomes easy. Addressing a review meeting on NPR, Mr. Dwivedi said the population registration was taken up in total 12 coastal mandals comprising 32 villages that are divided into 480 blocks. House-listing has already been completed in the first phase.

Fingerprints

Eighteen villages of the above five mandals were being covered in the second phase. Data was being entered into laptops by trained operators sent by the Electronics Corporation of India Limited.

The Collector said coastal villages in Amalapuram division would be surveyed in the next phase. After the entire exercise is completed, all those aged above 15 would be photographed and their fingerprints taken in the bio-metric system for issuing the identity cards. Wide publicity is sought to be given in the said coastal mandals to ensure that the data collection is not hampered. Enumerators were also being sent by mandal revenue officers.

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