India’s subsequent census to be digital, app-based train: Centre

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: India is gearing up for its first digital census and the federal government has already made a number of technological developments on the platform on which the precise headcount, class, gender, age, employment and different socio-economic knowledge of over 130 crore Indian residents could be captured and categorised.

Nityanad Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs, knowledgeable the Parliament on Tuesday that the following census shall be an app-based train, including, “the forthcoming Census will be the first digital Census and there is a provision for self-enumeration.”

Rai additional stated that “Mobile apps for the collection of data and a census portal for the management and monitoring of various census-related activities have been developed.”

The Minister was responding to a query in Lok Sabha on the standing of the decennial census, which was slated to be performed in 2021. Several Parliamentarians sought to know from the Ministry of Home Affairs as to when the census could be accomplished.

“The intent of the Government for conducting Census 2021 was notified in the Gazette of India on March 28, 2019. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census 2021 and the related field activities have been postponed until further orders,” Rai stated, including that the following census could be achieved on a digital platform.

The final decennial or decadal inhabitants census train of India, performed by the Directors of Census Operations who coordinate the work of census taking within the respective States and Union Territories, was undertaken throughout Feb 9–28, 2011, with a revisional spherical throughout March 1-5, 2011. The subsequent Census was due in 2021 however the identical has been postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Rai stated, “the population projection for India and States and Union Territories for 2011-2036, based on Census 2011 data, were available in the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections published by the National Commission on Population, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.”

Population Census offers fundamental statistics on the state of human assets, demography, tradition and financial construction on the native, regional and nationwide ranges. The data and knowledge are very important to information and form the long run improvement initiatives of the nation.

NEW DELHI: India is gearing up for its first digital census and the federal government has already made a number of technological developments on the platform on which the precise headcount, class, gender, age, employment and different socio-economic knowledge of over 130 crore Indian residents could be captured and categorised.

Nityanad Rai, Minister of State for Home Affairs, knowledgeable the Parliament on Tuesday that the following census shall be an app-based train, including, “the forthcoming Census will be the first digital Census and there is a provision for self-enumeration.”

Rai additional stated that “Mobile apps for the collection of data and a census portal for the management and monitoring of various census-related activities have been developed.”

The Minister was responding to a query in Lok Sabha on the standing of the decennial census, which was slated to be performed in 2021. Several Parliamentarians sought to know from the Ministry of Home Affairs as to when the census could be accomplished.

“The intent of the Government for conducting Census 2021 was notified in the Gazette of India on March 28, 2019. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census 2021 and the related field activities have been postponed until further orders,” Rai stated, including that the following census could be achieved on a digital platform.

The final decennial or decadal inhabitants census train of India, performed by the Directors of Census Operations who coordinate the work of census taking within the respective States and Union Territories, was undertaken throughout Feb 9–28, 2011, with a revisional spherical throughout March 1-5, 2011. The subsequent Census was due in 2021 however the identical has been postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, Rai stated, “the population projection for India and States and Union Territories for 2011-2036, based on Census 2011 data, were available in the Report of the Technical Group on Population Projections published by the National Commission on Population, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.”

Population Census offers fundamental statistics on the state of human assets, demography, tradition and financial construction on the native, regional and nationwide ranges. The data and knowledge are very important to information and form the long run improvement initiatives of the nation.