Census 2021 may skip caste count

GS-I: Census 2021 may skip caste count

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Census 2021 is unlikely to collect “caste-wise” data as a similar exercise conducted in 2011 by another ministry threw up about 40 lakh caste names that were difficult to tabulate.
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, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The 2011 caste data, collected as part of the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), is yet to be released by the Centre.
As per the National Commission for Backward Classes, there are 2,479 entries in the Central list of the Other Backward Classes (OBC).
The Census would restrict itself to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes data.

What’s new in the 2021 Census?

The Census 2021 will be conducted in 18 languages out of the 23 scheduled languages, while Census 2011 was in 16 of the 18 scheduled languages declared at that time.
It will be conducted in two phases: the house listing phase with 34 parameters from April 2020 to September 2020 and the population enumeration phase with 28 parameters from February 9 2021 to February 28 2021.
The option of “Other” under the gender category, which roughly 5 lakh people marked in 2011, is now “Third Gender”.
In a first-time move, the process will now also include an optional mobile application that the 30 lakh enumerators can download on their own personal devices for data entry.

Source: The Hindu

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