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All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act, which predates the Constitution of India. [2] The 1948 Census of India Act does not bind the Union Government to conduct the census on a particular date or to release its data in a notified period. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in ...
The first census of India was conducted in the 1872 and attempted to collect data across as much of the country as was feasible. The first of the decennial censuses took place in 1881. Until 1961, responsibility for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the census was exercised by a temporary administrative structure that was put ...
The National Register of Citizens for Assam is a registry (NRC) meant to be maintained by the Government of India for the state of Assam. It is expected to contain the names and certain relevant information for the identification of genuine Indian citizens in the state. The register for Assam was first prepared after the 1951 Census of India ...
The post of Registrar General was created by the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836, and registration began in 1837. The Registrar General was soon given other responsibilities, such as the conduct of every census in England and Wales since 1841, and eventually came to be head of a primarily statistical organisation. In England and Wales ...
The 2024 census of India, or the 16th Indian census, is to be conducted in two phases, a house listing phase and a population enumeration phase.Although initially the house listing was to begin in April 2020 along with the updating of the National Population Register, and the population enumeration on 9 February 2021, [1] they have been effectively postponed to after the 2024 general elections ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India will conduct its much-delayed national census soon, Interior Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday, after a delay of about three years. Reuters last month reported that ...
The NPR planned for 2020 will also include more details such as the place of birth of the parents, last place of residence and the serial number for official documents. [20] Critics believe the Indian government will use the list to mark people as doubtful citizens after which they would be asked to prove their citizenship. [22]
As a data source, Civil Registration systems can provide continuous, systematic, and up-to-date information on the population in complement to the population census. [4] Additional benefits include: [5] in economic terms, avoiding some of the costs of censuses and household surveys; making more accurate and timely data available for policy making