{"id":962994,"date":"2026-09-02T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=533058"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:03:10","slug":"census-deferred-following-public-demand-for-nrc-update-says-manipur-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/09\/02\/census-deferred-following-public-demand-for-nrc-update-says-manipur-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Census deferred following public demand for NRC update, says Manipur CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?fit=1200%2C650&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur Census deferred\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=768%2C416&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=400%2C217&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?fit=1200%2C650&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?fit=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur Census deferred\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=768%2C416&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=400%2C217&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Untitled-design-7.jpg?fit=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam\u00a0Khemchand Singh announced on September 2 that the Centre has deferred the state&#8217;s Census exercise, citing public concern and demands for an updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). Addressing the opening day of the Assembly&#8217;s eighth session, Singh said the state government has consistently lobbied for the NRC update to precede [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/census-deferred-following-public-demand-for-nrc-update-says-manipur-cm.html\">Census deferred following public demand for NRC update, says Manipur CM<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/census-deferred-following-public-demand-for-nrc-update-says-manipur-cm.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/census-deferred-following-public-demand-for-nrc-update-says-manipur-cm.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam\u00a0Khemchand Singh announced on September 2 that the Centre has deferred the state&#8217;s Census exercise, citing public concern and demands for an updated National Register of Citizens (NRC). Addressing the openin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-962994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962994"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963062,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962994\/revisions\/963062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}