Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday said that the delay in the census has deprived 14 crore Indians of their rightful benefits under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), adding that food security is not a privilege but a fundamental right. A must read on Dynamite News:
“It is clear that the Government has no intention whatsoever to conduct the Census that was last due in 2021.” Read further on Dynamite News:
The 2021 census will be the first census to be conducted with a mixed-mode approach-a mobile app (created in-house by Registrar General of India office), said Ministry of Home Affairs.
Top census officials have discussed a strategy to carry out the massive exercise to count different aspects of India’s a billion plus population and run the entire process seamlessly, the Home Ministry said on Friday.
The 2021 census will be conducted through a mobile phone application, moving away from traditional pen and paper to give Digital India a boost, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday.
With a literacy rate of 91.3 per cent, Mizoram is holding the third position in the country.
Census 2021 will for the first time collect data on Other Backwards Castes.
The linguistic data of Census 2011 has been finalised and will be released after approval of the competent authority, Union minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today.
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