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The Census, work for which has begun, has reportedly also run into resistance. Non-cooperation on such a scale could compromise the quality of Indian statistics and warp policy formulation

1 min read5 Mar 2020
News

Govt may need ₹8,754 crore to conduct Census 2021 in 16 languages

The amount was mentioned by Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai at the Lok Sabha on TuesdayThe 2021 census will be conducted through a mobile phone application, moving away from the traditional pen and paper to give Digital India a boost

1 min read19 Nov 2019
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Amit Shah talks digital census in 2021, floats multipurpose ID card idea

Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that the 2021 census will be a digital exercise and a mobile app will be used to collect data. Shah said that the transformation from a paper to digital census would be completed in 2021 itself. The Home Minister also floated the idea of a multipurpose identity card for citizens with all utilities like Aadhaar, passport, driving licence and bank accounts. The Home Minister also added that there should also be a system that when a person dies, the information is updated in the population data automatically.

23 Sep 2019
News

Mobile app likely to be used for data collection in Census 2021

For the first time in the 140-year history of census in India, data is proposed to be collected through a mobile app and enumerators would be encouraged to use their own mobile phoneTotal 33 lakh enumerators, the persons who conduct door to door counting, would be mobilised for data collection

2 min read9 Apr 2019
Politics

Census 2021 will collect data on OBCs: home ministry

Census 2021 will be finalised in three years after conducting the census instead of seven to eight years now, says home ministry

1 min read31 Aug 2018
Politics

‘We have to factor in data privacy in census design and methodology’

In an interview, registrar general and census commissioner Sailesh, talks about the implications of the Supreme Court's privacy ruling on how census data is collected and stored

4 min read23 Jan 2018
Politics

Work related to 2021 census to begin this year, says home ministry

The union home ministry has said work related to 2021 census, covering the country's entire 1.30 billion population, will begin this year

1 min read10 Jan 2018

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