Aizawl, March 22 -- The Mizoram government has initiated fresh efforts to revive its proposed household registers legislation by constituting a Drafting Committee to prepare a revised version of the Mizoram Maintenance of Household Registers Bill, 2026.
Chief Minister Lalduhoma informed the State Assembly in a written reply that the committee was formed on February 25 after the earlier Mizoram Maintenance of Household Registers Bill, 2019, failed to secure approval from the Centre.
The 2019 Bill, which had been passed by the Mizoram Legislative Assembly on March 18 that year, did not receive gubernatorial assent. Instead, the then Governor, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi - who was holding additional charge while serving as Assam Governor - referred ...