May 15 to mark first phase of Census

Chandigarh, December 10

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Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh on Tuesday reviewed the preparations of Census-2021 at a meeting of the state-level Coordination Committee here. An official spokesperson said the Census operations would be carried out in two phases. The first phase, including house-listing and housing census, will be carried out from May 15 to June 29, 2020.

It will also include the updating of National Population Register. In the second phase, population enumeration will be conducted from February 9-28, 2021, with a revision round from March 1-5, 2021.

The spokesperson revealed that the boundaries of the administrative units at all levels should stand frozen as on December 31. This will place a blanket ban on making any changes in the boundaries of existing municipalities, revenue villages, tehsils, development blocks, sub divisions, districts etc. till the completion of the exercise.

The Chief Secretary was told that training of the master trainers would be held from December 16-21 at MGSIPA, Chandigarh. The enumerators and supervisors, mainly teachers, clerks or any officials of the state government, local authorities etc will be deployed for the field work. They would be imparted a four-day training in this regard. The process of enumeration will be done with the help of a bilingual mobile app and paper format also. Use of maps/geo-referencing at the time of house listing is also under consideration. — TNS