Census

Just over half the ministries, departments and autonomous bodies released these crucial documents for 2020-21

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that "it will not take long" before work began on a state-level caste-based census, which he has agreed to after inability expressed by the Centre

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted with digitalisation of the census process in the country, a 100 percent perfect' enumeration can be expected in the next counting exercise

The upcoming census will be digital for the first time and people will have the option of self enumeration, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday

Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the state governments appoint census officers to take or aid in or supervise the census exercise under the provisions of the Census Act 1948

Pandemic postponement cannot last forever

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday appointed 10 'Directors of Census Operations' in various states, including Uttar Pradesh.

The citizens of the country, if they wish, will be able to self-enumerate online in the upcoming census as the government has amended the rules.

Highlighting the importance of the caste census, the Chief Minister said that it will enable the government to work for the development of various sections of the society

The five-year moving average growth rate is significantly lower than it was in 2009-10

The decennial census, supposed to be held in 2020-21 but postponed due to the Covid pandemic, will not be held anytime soon. The Centre has directed the states not to alter the boundaries of the districts and other civil and police units till June 2022 -- a mandatory requirement three months prior to the country's biggest enumeration exercise. With the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic looming large, Union Home Ministry officials said so far, no decision has been taken on when to conduct the census and then update the National Population Register (NPR). The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India has conveyed to the states that the central government has put a ban on the alteration of boundaries of districts, sub-divisions, taluks, police stations, etc. till June 2022, an official from the Home Ministry said. Ban on alteration of boundaries of administrative and police units, at least three months prior, is mandatory for conducting the census operations. Since the boundar

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Objecting to what the report has not counted and what it has misses the point that India's gender gap is mending.

Sahni said several organisations have met him with this demand

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that an all-party meeting would be convened soon to take a decision on conducting a caste-based census in the state. Talking to reporters here, Kumar said that he had clarified in the past that the option of carrying out a state-specific census exercise is open. "We (all party) will soon take up the matter. An all-party meeting will be called to arrive at a unanimous decision on the exercise. Whatever be the decision, it will have to be a unanimous one, he underlined. The Centre had in September told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that caste census of Backward Classes is administratively difficult and cumbersome and excluding such information from the purview of the exercise is a ''conscious policy decision''. Earlier, Kumar, as the leader of an all-party delegation from Bihar, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to press for inclusion of OBCs in caste census. Asked about his reaction to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad's latest remark that

The dates being considered are likely to somewhat delay the crucial population count later in calendar year 2022. The approvals for doing the exercise in 2021 have run out

Centre's stand assumes significance as recently, a 10-party delegation from Bihar, which was led by Nitish Kumar, had met PM Modi demanding caste Census

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, a votary of caste-based census, on Monday said several political parties in other states have started raising the same demand for caste enumeration