Govt Declares Census, NPR Database As CII

The computer resources relating to Census Monitoring and Management System, Self-Enumeration and Civil Registration System (CRS) web portals, among other has been declared by the central government being as critical information infrastructure (CII) of the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India

The government has declared certain databases relating to the Census and the National Population Register (NPR) as critical information infrastructure (CII).

The union home ministry through a notification said that the decision came after exercising the powers conferred to it within the Information Technology Act, 2000, (Amended 2008).

The computer resources relating to Census Monitoring and Management System, Self-Enumeration and Civil Registration System (CRS) web portals, mobile applications for House Listing, Population Enumeration and National Population Register updation has been declared by the central government being as critical information infrastructure (CII) of the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, the notification said.

As per the notification, the linked databases have also declared being CII. It includes the NPR database, Census database and CRS database, computer resources setup and installed at National Data Centre, Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Delhi, and Disaster Recovery Site and Data Centres at Bengaluru and Lucknow.

Under the law, the computer resources of all related dependencies of the above-mentioned entities have also been declared as “protected systems”. The notification valid with immediate effect. Hence, considering the notification the Census 2021 has been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and may begin in the near future.