By PTI
NEW DELHI: The upcoming census can be digital for the primary time and folks can have the choice of self enumeration, Lok Sabha was knowledgeable on Tuesday.
The housing itemizing part of the census and the train to replace the National Population Register (NPR) had been scheduled to be carried out throughout the nation from April 1 to September 30, 2020 however needed to be postponed as a result of COVID-19 outbreak.
“The forthcoming census is to be the first digital census and there is a provision for self-enumeration. The census 2021 and related field activities have been postponed until further orders due to outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic,” Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai stated in a written reply to a query.
According to the sooner schedule, the census would have its reference date as March 1, 2021 and in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, it might have been October 1, 2020.
The census operation continues to be on maintain and the federal government is but to announce the brand new schedule.