Census 2021

What is the Census of India?

The decennial Census of India has been conducted 15 times, as of 2011.
While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under British Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1881.
Post-1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act.
The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next will be held in 2021.

About Census 2021

Census exercise will be conducted in February 2021. It will have the facility of self enumeration.
2 Phases

Phase 1: House listing and Housing census.
Phase 2: Population enumeration.

2021 Census = 1st time data would be stored in electronically and 1st time OBC will be collected.
The Census 2021 will be conducted in 18 languages out of the 22 scheduled languages (under 8th schedule) and English, while Census 2011 was in 16 of the 22 scheduled languages declared at that time.
It also will introduce a code directory to streamline the process
The option of “Other” under the gender category will be changed to “Third Gender”.
There were roughly 5 lakh people under “other” category in 2011.
For the first time in the 140 year history of the census in India, data is proposed to be collected through a mobile app by enumerators and they will receive an additional payment as an incentive.
The Census data would be available by the year 2024-25 as the entire process would be conducted digitally and data crunching would be quicker.

What is the news?

States are told to update Census register.
This will help enumerators collect details during first phase of the exercise.

Source: TH

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