Vinod Bhat
New Delhi: The Chairman of the High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes (HLCDC), Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar (Retd.) has launched the Committee’s dedicated digital web portal in New Delhi.
The web portal is available at https://demography.mha.gov.in and fully operational and open for public access, stakeholder submissions, and data interaction.
The portal facilitates the Central Government Ministries/Departments, State/UT Governments, NGOs/Institutions and individuals to give inputs/ data/information on un-natural demographic changes, it’s causes and underlying factors behind these changes, abnormal settlement pattern etc. These inputs will help the Committee to analyse and identify the causes of demographic changes and to recommend a well-organised and permanent operational system for the legal, fair and time bound identification, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants residing in the country.
The committee was formally constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on May 26, 2026.
The terms of reference of the Committee are as under: –
- To undertake an extensive consideration of the challenges arising from demographic changes, including due to illegal immigration.
- To study the possible causes of such demographic changes, such as variations in fertility, cross border movement (including illegal immigration), economic opportunities, and other socioenvironmental factors.
- To identify the underlying factors behind these changes, including illegal immigration, abnormal settlement patterns, and planned migration.
- To analyze structural population changes at the level of religious or social communities, especially those diverging from uniform trends.
- To recommend a well-organized and permanent operational system for the legal, fair and time bound identification, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants already residing in the country.
- To recommend an appropriate institutional mechanism to strengthen border management, population stabilization, and identification systems for sustained monitoring of such trends.
- To propose a comprehensive policy framework to enhance coordination between Central and State Governments in matters related to illegal immigration and resultant demographic imbalance.
- The Committee may recommend any other measure it deems appropriate to address the challenges arising from demographic changes, including due to illegal immigration.
