While announcing this on Monday, Union home minister Amit Shah also said that India could have a "single multi-purpose identity card” which will be used as an identity card, voter card, passport and also as a PAN.Flights were being operated in China famous Aluminum scaffolding tower and out of Srinagar and other modes of transport like taxis were functional, he said and wanted to know if these could happen in a clampdown scenario.Asked about India’s response to the reactivation of the Balakot camp, and if another surgical strike may be expected, he said, "Why must you expect repeat of a similar thing? Earlier we did something, then we did Balakot, why must we repeat.? Why not keep the other side guessing as to what we will do; why tell him what we are going to do? …Why say repeat, why not something beyond that. He that earlier governments did no comprehensive planning for development work, but this approach changed completely after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014. Speaking during the laying of the foundation stone of a new building of the Registrar-General of India and Census Commissioner in New Delhi, the minister also pitched for a single multi-purpose identity card for all public utilities like Aadhaar, passport, driving licence and bank accounts.. 

It can also be used for the delimitation exercise for Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, along with the municipal wards. It is not that the religion is bad but the manner in which it is being interpreted for whatever reason is what is affecting the people who listen to those messages.”The Chief of the Army Staff also asserted that the wrong interpretation of Islam by some elements who wanted to create disruption, is spreading. "I feel the interpretation of Islam by some elements who possibly want to create disruption is being fed to large number of people. The entire exercise to be conducted in 16 languages will cost a whopping `12,000 crores.New Delhi: Census 2021 would be conducted entirely digitally through a mobile app instead of the conventional pen and paper method.Mr Shah said that the reference date for the census will be March 1, 2021, while for the snow-infested states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, it will be October 1, 2020.. He said the Modi government, on basis of the 2011 Census, planned 22 welfare schemes."You can go to apple orchards and you can see heaps of apples that have been plucked and packed into boxes and being transported out of Valley. Who is plucking these apples? Who is packing them in boxes, who is loading them into these trucks? And who takes the trucks out from the Valley?” he asked. The data collected is mutli-dimensional, with several benefits,” the minister said..This is the first time that census data will be collected through a mobile app. I think it is important that we have preachers who convey the correct meaning of Islam in whatever form it was written by those who wanted Islam to be preached in proper manner,” he said. Mr Shah said the census data will help in better planning and execution of public welfare schemes and development initiatives.On February 27 this year, IAF fighters flew into Pakistan to bomb a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror facility at Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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