New Delhi: The decision to start the first phase of census from Haryana was taken in a meeting in New Delhi on Friday. Process will start from May 1 and will continue till June 15,2020.
Sources said that divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners, and principal census officers were present in the meeting which reviewed the preparedness for census 2021. The meeting was chaired by Register General and Census Commissioner of India Vivek Joshi.
It was informed in the meeting that around 58,000 numerators and supervisors would be deployed for canvassing the data.
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Sources further said that the second phase of the census 2021, will be conducted from February 9 to February 28, 2021, with a revisional round from March 1 to 5. Significantly, the entire process of enumeration will be conducted online with the help of a mobile app, which was designed by the Registrar General of India (RGI). Recently, the Home Ministry has said that Census 2021 would be the first ever census with a mixed mode approach-a mobile app (created in-house by RGI office).
"While confidentiality about your data is guaranteed by Census Act, 1948, the same law specifies penalty for both public and Census officials for non compliance or violation of any provision of the Act," the Home Ministry has said.
