NEW DELHI: A parliamentary committee, noting the meagre Rs 575 crore provided in the 2025-26 Budget for census and NPR updation, has recommended that census may be completed at the earliest. Census 2021 and NPR updation exercise were to start in 2020 but put on hold due to the Covid outbreak.
The panel, while noting manifold increase in cybercrimes across country, recommended setting up of a separate central police force, on lines of NIA or CBI, to deal with cybercrimes. It noted with concern how actual allocations for many central police forces like CRPF, BSF, etc in 2025-26 have fallen short of projections.
Noting that such reductions may hit critical schemes and police modernisation programmes, it recommended home ministry talk to finance ministry to seek increased allocations at revised estimate stage.
