The Center announces the resolution of the High Level Committee on Demographic Change

Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File | Photo credit: ANI

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) announced a resolution on the High Level Committee on Demographic Change.

In a statement, the MHA said that large-scale problems have arisen from demographic changes, including illegal immigration, and some regions of the country have seen demographic changes that cannot be attributed to normal birth or death trends, but instead appear 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 spread beyond these areas and is now affecting urban centres, industrial corridors, tribal regions and other socially and economically sensitive areas, seriously impacting public service delivery, local governance, resource distribution and social cohesion, the statement added.

Unnatural demographic changes due to infiltration and other reasons are a great challenge for the present and future of any nation.

To meet this challenge, the Prime Minister on August 15, 2025 @narendramodi It was announced by the “High Level Committee on Demographic Change”. You’re telling me this harshly…

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) May 26, 2026

“The existing institutional framework was ill-equipped to conduct a coordinated, evidence-based and time-bound assessment and response to such demographic changes,” the MHA said.

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

The country’s last census was conducted in 2011 and the next exercise is scheduled for 2027.

Published – 27 May 2026 09:55 IST