The work will be jointly conducted by the union ministries of rural development, housing and urban development and Registrar General of India (RGI).
The new caste-based census that was approved by the Union cabinet on Thursday will involve anganwadi workers for data collection with the help of electronic devices like personal digital assistant (PDA). This census will not involve teachers but village-level workers like gramsevaks, anganwadi workers and health workers. The enumerators will not carry any paper in their hands to record the data.
Moreover, the census would be carried out by the union rural development ministry, not by the census department. However, the state rural development on Friday did not confirm any official communication from the Union government.
Sources in the state government said, “While this census will be conducted to identify the poor along with their caste and religion, the work will be jointly conducted by the union ministries of rural development, housing and urban development and Registrar General of India (RGI). However, it would be rural and urban development departments which would be playing the crucial role in the exercise rather than the RGI. The state census directorate is likely to be roped in only for providing training census personnel.”
Interestingly, this census will be paper-less in nature. An enumerator will feed the responses into a hand-held device and the data will be uploaded on a central server.
The electronic devices will be supplied by Bharat Electronics Ltd
(BEL). “The enumerators will not be carrying any paper forms but small electronic devices like PDA to feed the data at the time of asking questions,” said the sources.
No teacher will be involved in this census. The rural and urban development departments will carry out the exercise with the help of gramsevaks, anganwadi workers, village health workers etc.
This census is not being carried out under the Census Act 1948. The guidelines for the caste-based census are yet to come from the government of India. This census will help identify poor people from every religion and caste and also find out BPL families. State commissioner and principal secretary (rural development) Rita Teotia said: "We have not received any official communication from the government of India, so nothing can be said in this regard."
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