All you need to know about the National Population Register T he Union Cabinet has approved the updating of the National Population register or the NPR after a meeting was held as some states stopped working on it work on it the Census Commission has said the objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual citizen or resident of the country the database who will have demographic as well as biometric details the NPR exercise will be held between April and September 2020. In all states and union territories except Assam where the National Register of citizens exercise or the NCR I'm sorry NRC to identify illegal migrants has already been conducted the data for NPR was first collected in 2010 during the second term of UPA and along with the house listing phase of the census to 2011. The NPR data was first updated in 2015 with door-to-door service and digitization of the updated data is complete now in the next step the government