CENSUS-2011

CENSUS-2011
THE BIGGEST-EVER IN HISTORY
11-MONTH EXERCISE WILL ENUMERATE
THE COUNTRY'S 1.2 BILLION POPULATION

On Thursday 1st April 2010 launched' Census 2011' the biggest-ever attempted in the history of mankind enumerating the country's 1.2 billion population. The massive exercise, to be spread over next 11 months will mark a milestone as the first ever National Population Register (NPR) will also be prepared in which all persons aged over 15 years will be photographed and finger printed to create a biometric national database with this India will probably become the first democratic nation in thee world which would have got its population finger printed in year from now.
The 15th National Census exercise. The expenditure on NPR will be Rs 3,539.24 crore. The exercise will also consume more than 11 million tonnes of paper.
During the massive exercise, the enumerators for the first time will collect information like ownership of mobile phones, computers, Internet, having treated or untreated drinking water facility and usage of banking service.
The second phase, called the population enumeration simultaneously all over the country from February 9 to 28,2011, and the entire exercise would be completed by march 5, 2011
All 640 districts, 5,767 tehsils, 7742 towns and more than six lakh villages will be covered.

Prof. John Kurakar