NRP Desk
NEW DELHI: The demography mission announced by the Prime Minister on August 15 will likely include key ministers, to address kay issues related to demographcs, including illegal immigration and the disparities between the growth rates of population across India, which threaten to cause a federal rupture. Senior government officials familiar with the matter said that while the main focus of the mission will be to combat infiltration, it will a ho address in ues such as extensive migration, especially from states such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar. Odisha and West Bengal to western and southern states. It will also look into ways to ensure the southern states are not penalised politically or financially for managing to get their population growth rates to desired levels-even as more populous and pour states such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have not On August 15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in his Independence Day speech delivered from the ramparts of the Red Fort that his government would set up a high-powered mission to deal with demographic changes triggered by infiltration. Hemattained that no country can afford to give away its land to intruders and pointed out how infiltration in border stuites can compromise national security and and develop development.
