Pune Municipal Corporation yet to receive the machines to begin the survey that was to start on October 1.
The caste-based census in the city is yet to kick off even after almost one month for want of tablet personal computers (tablet PCs) that need to be provided to the enumerators. The survey was to start on October 1.
Deputy municipal commissioner Praveen Ashtikar said that 1,700 enumerators in the city are supposed to visit homes and gather socio-economic data, including information about religion and caste.
The data is to be filled in tablet PCs. But the work has not started as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has not received the tablet PCs yet.
After the enumerators have uploaded the data in their handheld computers, it would be transferred to the central server on the same day. PMC is the nodal agency to conduct the socio-economic census.
The enumerators have been trained to carry out the survey and the civic body has made all other preparations for the census.
Prior to the headcount of Census 2011, the enumerators had visited households in the city to gather data for national population register (NPR). Now they would add the socio-economic data to it.
Census 2011 was conducted in the city at the beginning of the year. The Centre had approved a proposal to carry out the socio-economic census of the country in which castes of all citizens would be noted.
There was pressure from people’s representatives belonging to other backward castes (OBCs) to conduct the caste-based census in the country to determine the exact number, so that welfare schemes could be planned accordingly. Hence, the census was to start in the city as part of the nationwide programme.
The last caste-based census was done in the country in 1931, during the British rule. Thereafter, there has been census every decade but castes were not enumerated. Only castes of citizens belonging to scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) are recorded in the census every decade.
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