Municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade said there are 29 questions to be answered by each person. But there is no question to note caste in OBC category or any such category except for scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST).
In spite of a national-level debate and pressure by other backward caste (OBC) leaders in the country last year, there will be no census of OBCs or any caste-based census in the second and final phase of the national census, starting in the city from February 9.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade said there are 29 questions to be answered by each person. But there is no question to note caste in OBC category or any such category except for scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST).
The civic chief’s statement is important against the background that it is common practice to note castes of SC and ST persons during the national census.
But for this census, there was a tremendous pressure on the central government from OBC leaders cutting across party lines, that there should be enumeration of OBCs.
“The non-availability of state-wise data on OBCs is the main hurdle in formulation of policies for their development,’’ was the concern expressed by these leaders.
Zagade said that during Census 2011 operation, 14 ward officers of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) have been appointed as charge officers. The field work of the census would be carried out by 6,378 enumerators and 1,018 supervisors.
Deputy commissioner (special) Pravin Ashtikar, who is in charge of the census work for the city, said that in Pune city, the responsibility of census is with the PMC. The estimated population of the city is more than 30 lakh.
The enumerators, who would be given the responsibility of visiting about 150 homes each, would gather information about every citizen on the basis of a questionnaire with 29 questions. The details include name, sex, birth date, age, marital status, mother tongue, literacy and education.
On the last day of the drive on February 28, information of all homeless people living on streets, footpaths, railway stations or bus stops would be gathered till midnight.
The revision of census would be done from March 1 to March 5, during which information of people who were not present during the earlier round will be collected.
The first phase of the census took place from May 1 to June 15, 2010, during which houses were listed and information about them was collected. The data was gathered for the National Population Register.
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