Census 2011 to be much faster: PC

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that Census 2011 will carried out using state-of-the-art technology to ensure faster completion of work, bring down completion time from four-five years to one-two years.

Chidambaram on Wednesday unveiled the mascot of enumerator for Census 2011. The enumeration procedure for the Census begins on Feb 9 and would continue till Feb 28, 2011.

House listing, housing census and collection of data on National Population Register (NPR) was done in the first phase from April to Sep 2010.

During the second phase, 2.7 million enumerators and supervisors will visit house to house for counting purposes.

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India C Chandramauli gave details about the mammoth exercise which entails an expenditure of Rs 2,200 crore.

For enumeration purpose, Rs 2.47 million blocks have been made to count population of approximately 240 million households.

The RGI said that the omissions rate in the Indian Census is around 1.7 per cent which is well within international norms and the effort in the ongoing Census is to further reduce this rate.

For population enumeration, 29 questions have been devised on demographic, marital status, cultural, literacy, economic, migration, travel to place of work and fertility parameters.