Government is preparing in full swing for the Census 2021 in which a mix mode approach will be adopted for data collection which will be conducted in two phases and in 16 languages.
Crux of the Matter
In a first, the next Census data is will be collected through a mobile application with the help of 33 lakh enumerators.
The monitoring of the entire field operation would be done through the portal called Census Monitoring and Management System.
An expenditure of Rs 8754.23 crores has been estimated by the Expenditure Finance Committee.
The reference date for the census will be October 1, 2020 date for J&K and snow-bound areas of Himachal and Uttarakhand and March 1 2021, is the date for the rest of the country.
In the first phase, house listing operations would be conducted and in the second phase, actual population enumeration would be done during February 9-28, 2021.
A week-long census training for 800 master trainers began at the Haryana Institute of Public Administration on 18th November and they will further train around 70,000 enumerators and supervisors for the 2021 Census.
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Census is a procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as “individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity”, and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. The information generated by the census – numbers of people, their distribution, their living conditions and other key data – is critical for the development. The oldest recorded census in India is thought to have occurred around 330 bc during the reign of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya under the leadership of Chanakya and Ashoka. More Info
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