Decadal census postpone till additional orders, no particular purpose cited
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The decadal Census, which was to have occurred final 12 months, has been postponed till additional orders, the federal government stated in a bland response within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. While it was deferred final 12 months as a result of pandemic, which was comprehensible, no particular purpose was supplied for placing it off now.
Junior house minister Nityanand Rai on Tuesday stated, “Due to outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, the Census 2021 and the related field activities have been postponed until further orders.” He stated precisely the identical factor in Parliament in July final as nicely.
In response to a query on the delay in Census inflicting extreme administrative constraints relating to distribution of assorted authorities schemes, Rai stated, “The population projections for India and states/Union Territories for 2011-2036, based on Census 2011 data, are available in the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections published by National Commission on Population.” However, consultants argue that inhabitants projections can not substitute actual knowledge from the bottom.
On the difficulty of caste-based Census, there was no change within the authorities’s line. Rai dominated it out, saying no authorities has enumerated caste-wise inhabitants aside from that of the SCs and STs in census since Independence.
“Bihar, Maharashtra and Odisha and a few organisations have requested to collect caste details in the forthcoming census,” he knowledgeable DMK’s A Ganeshamurthi final week in his written response within the Lok Sabha.
For the primary time, the train will go digital
It would be the first-ever digital Census every time it’s held with provision for self-enumeration. A cell app for assortment of information and a Census portal has already been developed
NEW DELHI: The decadal Census, which was to have occurred final 12 months, has been postponed till additional orders, the federal government stated in a bland response within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. While it was deferred final 12 months as a result of pandemic, which was comprehensible, no particular purpose was supplied for placing it off now.
Junior house minister Nityanand Rai on Tuesday stated, “Due to outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, the Census 2021 and the related field activities have been postponed until further orders.” He stated precisely the identical factor in Parliament in July final as nicely.
In response to a query on the delay in Census inflicting extreme administrative constraints relating to distribution of assorted authorities schemes, Rai stated, “The population projections for India and states/Union Territories for 2011-2036, based on Census 2011 data, are available in the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections published by National Commission on Population.” However, consultants argue that inhabitants projections can not substitute actual knowledge from the bottom.
On the difficulty of caste-based Census, there was no change within the authorities’s line. Rai dominated it out, saying no authorities has enumerated caste-wise inhabitants aside from that of the SCs and STs in census since Independence.
“Bihar, Maharashtra and Odisha and a few organisations have requested to collect caste details in the forthcoming census,” he knowledgeable DMK’s A Ganeshamurthi final week in his written response within the Lok Sabha.
For the primary time, the train will go digital
It would be the first-ever digital Census every time it’s held with provision for self-enumeration. A cell app for assortment of information and a Census portal has already been developed
