On April 21, the Census officials will visit the Raj Bhavan and chief minister's house and collect the details to mark the beginning of the massive process to create a data base of citizens.
The Census 2011 will be launched in Gujarat on April 21 with governor Dr Kamla and chief minister Narendra Modi as first two citizens to be enumerated in the census register.
On April 21, the Census officials will visit the Raj Bhavan and chief minister's house and collect the details to mark the beginning of the massive process to create a data base of citizens.
About 1,17,000 enumerators, mostly teachers, will visit some 5.5 crore denizens of the state and collect the data during the massive exercise for the sixth time since Gujarat came into existence.
Manish Bhardwaj, director of census operation in Gujarat, said that this time there will be a separate sheet to collect data for National Population Register (NPR) which will pave way for the centre's ambitious Unique Identification Number (UIN) project headed by Nandan Nilekani.
Some new parameters have also been added for the first time in the history of census in India since 1872 which include data collection on information on the ownership of mobile phones, computers, Internet, having drinking water facility at home.
According to Bhardwaj, the census 2011 is being undertaken in two phases to create a database on demography, economic activity, literacy and education, housing and household amenities, urbanisation, fertility and mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, language, religion and migration.
They will first begin the process of house listing, which records information on homes.
The headcount of people will take place from February 9 to 28, 2011.
The full census results will be released in mid-2011.
The Census 2011 is also important as the Central government also intends to create the National Population Register (NPR), which is a comprehensive identity database that will facilitate the creation of a biometrics- based identity system in the country, allowing identity cards for all citizens above 15 years of age.
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