About Justice (Retd) Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar Committee:
- It is a high-level committee constituted to assess demographic changes across India due to "illegal immigration and other unnatural causes".
- Members:
- The five-member committee will be chaired by retired Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar.
- It will also include the Census Commissioner along with Durga Shankar Mishra (Retd. IAS), Balaji Srivastava (Retd. IPS), and Dr. Shamika Ravi as members.
- The Joint Secretary (Foreigners-I), Ministry of Home Affairs, will serve as the committee’s Member Secretary.
- The committee has been tasked with studying patterns of demographic change across the country, identifying their causes, and suggesting legal, administrative, and policy measures to address the issue.
- The panel is expected to submit its report within a year.
