India, June 13 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah directed a high-level committee on demographic change to conduct a detailed study of population shifts in India's border districts and assess their causes, including illegal immigration and other unnatural factors.

Chairing a meeting of the panel, Shah instructed members to visit border regions, metropolitan cities and industrial hubs to evaluate demographic changes and their implications. The committee has been tasked with examining how illegal migration and other factors may be influencing population patterns across the country.

The committee, headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, was constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs to conduct a comprehensiv...