జనాభా లెక్కల్ని, NPR ని విడదీయాలి || Census, NPR Should Be Delinked ||
Given the costs of a nationwide door-to-door enumeration exercise, it is no surprise that the government is carrying out the Census and the NPR together. It is, however, doubtful whether this is legal. As per Section 15 of the Census Act, there is a prohibition on making public the data collected by any Census official. There is also an express prohibition against the use of any data collected under the Census Act, for any civil or criminal proceedings. To that extent, the data collected under the Census Act is privileged and is meant to be used only for statistical compilation for the purposes of governance. The text of the provision is reproduced below:
“15. Records of census not open to inspection of admissible in evidence. – No person shall have a right to inspect any book, register or record made by a census-officer in the discharge of his duty as such, or any schedule delivered under section 10 and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), no entry in any such book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible as evidence in any civil proceeding whatsoever or in any criminal proceeding other than a prosecution under this Act or any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an offence under this Act.”
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జనాభా లెక్కల్ని, NPR ని విడదీయాలి || Census, NPR Should Be Delinked || Given the costs of a nationwide door-to-door enumeration exercise, it is no surprise that the government is carrying out the Census and the NPR together. It is, however, doubtful whether this is legal. As per Section 15 of the Census Act, there is a prohibition on making public the data collected by any Census official. There is also an express prohibition against the use of any data collected under the Census Act, for any civil or criminal proceedings. To that extent, the data collected under the Census Act is privileged and is meant to be used only for statistical compilation for the purposes of governance. The text of the provision is reproduced below: “15. Records of census not open to inspection of admissible in evidence. – No person shall have a right to inspect any book, register or record made by a census-officer in the discharge of his duty as such, or any schedule delivered under section 10 and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), no entry in any such book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible as evidence in any civil proceeding whatsoever or in any criminal proceeding other than a prosecution under this Act or any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an offence under this Act.” https://scroll.in/article/953585/opinion-indian-law-does-not-allow-census-data-to-be-used-to-build-national-register-of-citizens