-The Hindu The self-enumeration option will, however, not be available in the first phase — the House Listing and Housing Census that is to be carried out from April 1 to September 30, 2020. In the second phase of the Decennial Census exercise that will be conducted in February 2021, respondents will have the option to fill in details on their own, a senior government official said. The ‘population enumeration’ phase of...
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Explained: What connects the NPR, NRIC and Census? -K Venkataramanan
-The Hindu * How is the National Population Register compiled? How is it related to citizenship and the Decennial Census? And, can States refuse cooperation with the NPR process? The story so far: As protests spread all across the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 and the proposed National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC), West Bengal and Kerala suspended work related to the preparation and update of the National Population...
More »Census 2021 may skip caste count -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu A large number of caste names are difficult to tabulate, says official. New Delhi: 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, a senior government official said on Friday. The decennial exercise would involve 31 lakh trained enumerators, with data collected digitally using Android based mobile phones. The Census...
More »Are you Arya Samaji, Bohra, Marthomite or Kuka? - Dinesh Narayanan
-The Economic Times For next census, proposal being debated on adding separate heads for sects/branches of 6 major faiths. NEW DELHI: Are you a Kabir Panthi or a Marthomite or a follower of the Hinayana sect or an Ahmadia or a Kuka? Confused? These are sub-faiths under the rubrics of, respectively, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism. Census 2021 may ask Indians to identify not just whether they belong to one of the...
More »Need to create jobs, here and now -Devender Singh
-The Hindu Business Line Demographic trends tell us that the working age population will continue to rise till 2040 Jobs, employment and unemployment are some of the words which have dominated the public and political debates in India in recent years. In the just concluded State elections also this issue was in prominence. For a study on ‘Demographic Dividend in India’, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) carried out population projections up to...
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