Census of India Current Affairs, GK & News

Recent Updates on Census 2021

January 3, 2022

Central Government has postponed the first phase of the census and collection of details for updating the National Population Register (NPR) at least till September, 2022. Highlights Earlier in December 2021, freezing of boundaries of districts, sub-districts, talukas, tehsils, police stations etc. has been postponed till June 2022. Freezing of boundary limits of administrative units ..

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16th Census of India to be conducted in 16 languages

November 25, 2019

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs will be conducting the 16th Census of India in 2021 in 16 languages. The expected expenditure is estimated to be around Rs. 8754 crores by the Finance Committee. It will be conducted in 2 phases- first House-listing and housing census from April ..

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Census 2021 to be conducted in 18

August 3, 2019

The 16th edition of Census 2021 will be conducted in 18 languages out of the 22 scheduled languages, while Census 2011 was in 16 of the 18 scheduled languages declared at that time. It also will introduce a code directory to streamline the process. Importantly, the latest census, as per the existing plan, will not ..

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