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UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: India
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India's High-Level Committee on Demographic Change — decoding fertility transition, migration, citizenship law, statelessness, federalism and the fine line between national security and civil liberties The Union Government has constituted a five-member High-Level Committee on Demographic Change, chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar (P.P.) Naolekar. First announced by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day address on 15 August 2025 and formally constituted in May 2026, the panel has been tasked with assessing demographic change driven by "illegal immigration and other unnatural causes" and recommending a legal mechanism for the identification, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants. The Government frames the exercise around sovereignty, internal security, border management and equitable service delivery. At the same time, constitutional experts, demographers and civil-society voices have flagged risks of communal profiling, wrongful exclusion a
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