High-Level Committee Formed to Address India's Demographic Challenges

Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced a committee led by Justice Naolekar to assess demographic changes in India due to illegal immigration and other causes. This high-level panel aims to identify underlying factors, propose policies, and recommend legal measures to protect national security and social structure.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday announced that the Centre has constituted a high-level committee under retired Supreme Court judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar to assess demographic changes across India due to ''illegal immigration and other unnatural causes''.

The home minister said the committee will be chaired by Justice Naolekar (retd) and will also include the census commissioner, along with retired IAS officer Durga Shankar Mishra, ex-IPS officer Balaji Srivastava and Dr Shamika Ravi as members.

This committee will conduct a comprehensive assessment of demographic changes occurring across India due to illegal immigration and other unnatural causes, analyse patterns of abnormal population shifts at the levels of religious and social communities, and present a planned and time-bound solution for the same.