The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) notified the resolution on high-level committee on demographic changes.

The MHA, in a statement, said extensive challenges have arisen from demographic changes, including due to illegal immigration and demographic changes have been observed in certain regions of the country which are not attributable to normal fertility or mortality trends but are instead emerging due to external abnormal factors such as illegal immigration, irregular population mobility, and administrative laxity.

Although these changes are most visibly concentrated in the border districts, their impact has extended beyond those areas, now affecting urban centres, industrial corridors, tribal regions, and other socially and economically sensitive areas, thereby severely impacting public service delivery, local governance, resource distribution, and social cohesion, the statement added.

“The existing institutional framework has not been adequately equipped to undertake coordinated, evidence-based, and time-bound evaluation and response to such demographic shifts,” the MHA said.

The committee, constituted on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) will also recommend an appropriate institutional mechanism for “population stabilisation,” according to the terms of reference.

The last population census was conducted in the country in 2011, and the next Census exercise is scheduled for 2027.