Census 2020

The first phase of Census 2021 - which had been scheduled from April 1 to September 30 this year - has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Home Ministry informed the Parliament Wednesday

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday assured the state assembly that the National Population Register (NPR) will not be implemented, but the state will go ahead with the census process.

Days after the Left government in Kerala moved the Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Congress today alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was trying to implement the controversial act "secretly" in the southern state.

In a first, the government will collect data on households headed by a person from the transgender community and members living in the family, Home Ministry officials said on Wednesday.

For the first time, Sikhs in the US will be counted as a separate ethnic group in the 2020 census, an organisation of the minority community said on Tuesday, describing it as a milestone moment.

"For the first time, the entire Census is being conducted on a digital platform with the use of an application that will ensure high accuracy and data security. In Delhi, the entire process will take around three months; enumerators will survey around 45 lakh establishments and households," Sadhu said, after flagging off the survey for Delhi.

The 7th Economic Census, which is being conducted nationwide through common services centres (CSCs), is expected to be completed by March 2020, Central Statistics Office Director General (Social Statistics) AK Sadhu said on Friday.

The Centre is ready with a list of states and Union Territories for the first digital National Population Register (NPR) under census 2021 putting newly created Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir on top where the mammoth exercise would start in September 2020.

President Donald Trump on Thursday backed down from his controversial push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, effectively conceding defeat in a battle he had revived last week and promised to continue despite a recent string of legal defeats.

A question about citizenship status will be reinstated on the 2020 Census to help enforce the Voting Rights Act, federal officials said on Monday, amid concerns that the change will compromise the accuracy of the population count.

The first phase of Census 2021 - which had been scheduled from April 1 to September 30 this year - has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Home Ministry informed the Parliament Wednesday

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday assured the state assembly that the National Population Register (NPR) will not be implemented, but the state will go ahead with the census process.

Days after the Left government in Kerala moved the Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Congress today alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was trying to implement the controversial act "secretly" in the southern state.

In a first, the government will collect data on households headed by a person from the transgender community and members living in the family, Home Ministry officials said on Wednesday.

For the first time, Sikhs in the US will be counted as a separate ethnic group in the 2020 census, an organisation of the minority community said on Tuesday, describing it as a milestone moment.

"For the first time, the entire Census is being conducted on a digital platform with the use of an application that will ensure high accuracy and data security. In Delhi, the entire process will take around three months; enumerators will survey around 45 lakh establishments and households," Sadhu said, after flagging off the survey for Delhi.

The 7th Economic Census, which is being conducted nationwide through common services centres (CSCs), is expected to be completed by March 2020, Central Statistics Office Director General (Social Statistics) AK Sadhu said on Friday.

The Centre is ready with a list of states and Union Territories for the first digital National Population Register (NPR) under census 2021 putting newly created Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir on top where the mammoth exercise would start in September 2020.

President Donald Trump on Thursday backed down from his controversial push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, effectively conceding defeat in a battle he had revived last week and promised to continue despite a recent string of legal defeats.

A question about citizenship status will be reinstated on the 2020 Census to help enforce the Voting Rights Act, federal officials said on Monday, amid concerns that the change will compromise the accuracy of the population count.