Census News
Central Government declares that a census of the population of India shall be taken during the year 2027, gazette notification issued.
Notification to conduct the Census will be published in the official gazette on June 16, 2025.
Amit Shah also said if the birth and death certificate data are preserved in a special way, development works can be planned properly.
In his letter PM Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge pointed out that the regular decennial census was to be carried out in 2021 but it has not yet been conducted.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar demanded the caste based census and said that the state has started the procedure for the same as it will provide better information about economic status of people.
These days people in Bolivia are very angry with the government. The reason for their displeasure is the 2022 census which the government has postponed till 2024. People say that this should happen only in 2022.
Till date census work in India used to be done manually which took a lot of time to complete. But from now onwards, the census will be done electronically.
Amit Shah on Monday announced that the next census in the country will be conducted in an e-mode.
Union Home Minister said that it will be '100 per cent perfect'.
Census is important from various aspects, he said.
In 2010, China's population was recorded at 1,33,97,24,852 which was reportedly an increase of 73,899,804 people - 5.83 per cent.
China is facing a demographic crisis with a rapidly ageing population after implementing the one-child policy in the late 1970s.
On January 15 (Wednesday), government sources told news agency ANI had said that all states have issued re-notification of the NPR, while Kerala and West Bengal have communicated to the Centre to put it on hold.
The NPR was prepared in 2010 under the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and Citizenship Rules, 2003, which was subsequently updated in 2015 by seeding it with Aadhaar.
The census will kickstart from April 1, 2020.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah also noted that the next census in 2021 would be done through a mobile app.
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba has said that mobile apps could greatly assist in collecting census data in the country - a practice which started here 140 years ago.
Census 2021 will be finalised?in three years after conducting the census instead of seven to eight years now, a home ministry spokesperson said.
The UK is set to become one of the first countries in the world not to require its citizens to identify their sex as part of its census forms.
Pakistan`s population has risen to 208 million people, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Friday, after the South Asian nation conducted its first census in 19 years.
Members and leaders of the Sikh community in Peshawar expressed their disappointment at being "left out" of the national census, saying they feared their community would not be adequately represented in Pakistan`s first national headcount in 19 years.
After a hiatus of 19 years, the Pakistani Government will be conducting the sixth housing and population census beginning March 15.
New estimates based on railway passenger traffic data reveal annual work-related migration of about 9 million people, almost double what the 2011 Census suggests
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