{"id":89837,"date":"2019-09-25T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:24:13","slug":"census-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/census-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Census 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Minister for Home Affairs has said that the 2021 census exercise would be carried out digitally.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Census:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The census provides information on size, distribution demographic, socio-economic and other characteristics of the country&#8217;s population.<\/li><li>A systematic and modern population census in its present form was conducted non synchronously between 1865 and 1872 in different parts of the country.<\/li><li>However,the first synchronous census in India was held in 1881.Since then,censuses have been undertaken uninterruptedly once every ten years.<\/li><li>Since 1949 the census has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.<\/li><li>India&#8217;s last census was carried out in 2011 when the country&#8217;s population stood at 121 crore.The Indian Census is one of the largest administrative exercises undertaken in the world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Census 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The data collected by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India during the 2021 Census will be stored electronically.<\/li><li>The Census 2021 will be conducted in 18 languages out of the 22 scheduled languages (under 8th schedule) and English.<\/li><li>The Census data would be available by the year 2024-25 as the entire process would be conducted digitally and data crunching would be quicker.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Registrar General of India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India was founded in 1961 by Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/li><li>It was formed for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Minister for Home Affairs has said that the 2021 census exercise would be carried out digitally. Facts: About Census: The census provides information on size, distribution demographic, socio-economic and other characteristics of the country&#8217;s population. A systematic and modern population census in its present form was conducted non synchronously between 1865 and 1872 in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/census-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Census 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[7218],"class_list":["post-89837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-census-2021","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}