New Delhi: Government of India may postpone both National Population Register (NPR) and Census exercises due to coronavirus outbreak.

It may be mentioned that the exercises are scheduled to start on 1st April 2020. However, due to the rise in the number of COVID cases in India, it is expected that the government will postpone the exercises.

As per the media report, two government sources confirmed that the exercises will not start on the scheduled date as the Union Health Ministry’s guidelines limit mass contact due to the outbreak of the virus.