Home ministry sets up high-level panel to assess 'unnatural' demographic change
This story was originally published at 18:33 IST on 26 May 2026
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NEW DELHI – The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has constituted a high-level committee to assess the "abnormal" demographic changes allegedly taking place across India due to "illegal immigration and other reasons" and present a time-bound solution, Home Minister Amit Shah announced Tuesday. Shah underlined infiltration as a big challenge before the country.
"Unnatural demographic change due to infiltration and other reasons is a big challenge for the present and future of any nation," Shah wrote on social media platform X. "To deal with this challenge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on Aug. 15, 2025 announced a high-level committee on demographic change. I am glad to inform that the government has constituted this committee."
The committee will be headed by retired judge Prakash Prabhakar Navalekar and will have Census Commissioner Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, retired Indian Administrative Service officer Durga Shankar Mishra, former Indian Police Service officer Balaji Srivastava, and the prime minister's Economic Advisory Council member Shamika Ravi. The joint secretary (Foreigners-I), Ministry of Home Affairs, will be member secretary of the panel.
Shah said demographic change is a "serious problem" related to the country's sovereignty, national security, and law and order, and it has consequences on the social structure and for the protection of tribal societies. "This committee will comprehensively assess the demographic changes taking place across India due to illegal migration and other abnormal reasons and analyse the patterns of abnormal population changes at the level of religious and social communities and present a planned and time-bound solution," he said. End
Reported by Asim Khan
Edited by Rajeev Pai
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