The NPR and the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) both originate from the same law, Citizenship Rules, 2003. The NRC begins with a register of residents — the population registry — out of which a citizenship registry, a registry of all Indian citizens, will be created. This process of “moving” people from the local population registry to the local citizenship registry is the key issue here. The data, collected during the NPR process, will be “verified and scrutinized” to make the NRIC. Thus, NPR is the first step to NRIC.

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