NEW DELHI : The Home Ministry on Sunday said enumerators of the National Population Register (NPR) will help people remember their month of birth by citing English or Gregorian calendar and important Indian festivals. There have been queries from general public with regard to the NPR manual 2020, which, besides others, mentioned "important festivals corresponding to English/Gregorian months" for enumerators and supervisors as none of the Muslim festivals are mentioned in the list of Indian festivals there. The purpose of this page is to help the enumerators to approximate the month of birth of the respondent, the official said. According to the manual, when a respondent knows only year of birth, the enumerators have to follow the step-wise approach. For the convenience of the enumerators, a list of important festivals and corresponding Gregorian months in which they fall is also mentioned in the manual.

Source: Mint December 29, 2019 16:41 UTC