{"id":218064,"date":"2022-12-12T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218064"},"modified":"2022-12-12T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:30:40","slug":"get-on-with-census-crucial-demographic-exercise-cannot-wait-for-next-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/get-on-with-census-crucial-demographic-exercise-cannot-wait-for-next-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Get on with Census: Crucial demographic exercise cannot wait for next elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cGet on with Census: Crucial demographic exercise cannot wait for next elections\u201d <\/strong>published in the Business Standard <\/b>on 12th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Governance.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the delay in Census.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: India\u2019s decadal Census exercise has been carried out at the beginning of every decade for over a century \u2014 except the current one. It was postponed due to the pandemic, but even after lifting the curbs, there is no effort to restart the Census process.<\/p>\n

So, there is an assumption that the Census 2021 will not begin to be conducted until after the next Lok Sabha elections in 2024.<\/p>\n

What is the importance of the Census?<\/h5>\n

Essential for state governance<\/strong>: The Census is the basic building block of many instruments of state policy<\/strong> that are essential for a)<\/strong> The proper provision of goods, b)<\/strong> The effectiveness of governance, c)<\/strong> Ensuring a fair and just division of expenditure across regions and target groups, d)<\/strong> Providing actual enumeration of population characteristics and e)<\/strong> Relevant for the division of the pool of taxes across states.<\/p>\n

Supreme over other surveys<\/strong>: Surveys on households, jobs and other items can only complement the Census<\/strong>, not replace it. Further, Census acts as a crucial corrective on such surveys, estimates, and extrapolations.<\/p>\n

Important for welfare state<\/strong>: For instance, a recent directive from the Supreme Court regarding the distribution of benefits under the National Food Security Act underlines the centrality of the Census to India\u2019s welfare mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: A census is not about counting sheep \u2013 on Issues related to census<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
How India plans to revamp the census?<\/h5>\n

The government plans to experiment with the benefits of digitising part of the process <\/strong>like that of the US. For instance, the government notified new methods of enumeration<\/strong>. This ensures \u201cself-enumeration<\/strong>\u201d by the respondents and electronic submission of data<\/strong>. This can speed up the Census process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Census should not be just data-oriented: House panel<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What should be done?<\/h5>\n

The government should fast-forward the census collection<\/strong>. This is because the upcoming elections and delimitation of constituencies in 2027 will further delay the census work. Hence, the government cannot afford to postpone the Census indefinitely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cGet on with Census: Crucial demographic exercise cannot wait for next elections\u201d published in the Business Standard on 12th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2 \u2013 Governance. Relevance: About the delay in Census. News: India\u2019s decadal Census exercise has been carried out at the beginning of every decade for… Continue reading Get on with Census: Crucial demographic exercise cannot wait for next elections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-218064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704817420},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}