NEW DELHI: Nearly 10 months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced it from the Red Fort on Independence Day, the Central Government has formally constituted the High-Level Committee on Demographic Change, a body tasked with examining population shifts caused by illegal immigration and other factors that the government considers threats to national security and the social fabric.
Home Minister Amit Shah announced the committee’s formation on Tuesday, describing infiltration-driven demographic change as “a very significant challenge to the present and future of any nation.”
Retired Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar will chair the committee and will include Census Commissioner along with retired IAS officer Durga Shankar Mishra, retired IPS officer Balaji Srivastava and economist Dr Shamika Ravi as members. The Joint Secretary (Foreigners-I) of the Ministry of Home Affairs will serve as Member Secretary.
“To address this very challenge, on 15 August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji had announced the High-Level Committee on Demographic Change. I am delighted to inform you that the government has now constituted this committee,” Shah wrote on X.
