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16/06/22 07:25 AM IST

Deadline for freezing administrative boundaries extended

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  • The census exercise, which was originally scheduled to take place in 2021, has been further pushed to 2023-24. 
Reason for post-ponment
  • Normally, before every Census, states are required to provide information on changes in the number of notified districts, villages, towns and other administrative units such as tehsils, talukas and police stations to the Registrar General of India (RGI).
  • After this RGI freezes the administrative boundaries so that census tasks can begin.
  • However, this time, RGI has extended the deadline for freezing administrative boundaries to December 31, 2022.
  • Since the Census can only begin a few months after the administrative boundaries are frozen, the possibility of a Census in 2022 is ruled out.
About Census
  • Population Census is the total process of collecting, compiling, analysing and disseminating demographic, economic and social data pertaining, at a specific time, of all persons in a country or a well-defined part of a country.
  • It was conducted in India in 1872 during the reign of Governor-General Lord Mayo.
  • The first synchronous census was taken under British rule on February 17, 1881, by C. Plowden (Census Commissioner of India).
  • The decennial Census is conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Source- Indian Express 

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