Come March 28, provisional census results will come up but a large number might not find themselves figuring in it. Considering incidences of omissions and the left-out people this year, state census directorate will rope in state department of economics and statistics department for post-enumeration survey and will also join hands with software company HCL for data scanning.
The rate of omission, according to a senior census officer, was 2.3 per cent in the census 2001 and this year it would likely to be stagnant but census official would try to rectify it by random sampling.
“I had to thrice make calls as I was not contacted by the census officials till the last week of February. Later, they came,” said a resident of a locality in Madhya Pradesh Nagar area.
Business Standard also observed similar cases in Hoshangabad and Ashoknagar districts, where people who were left out in the census, had been assured the team would revisit them. “Several members of our family had been omitted; they said they would revisit each house.”
Meanwhile, the directorate has geared up for giving finishing touch to the data collected for a month-long exercise that ended February 28, however the officials admit cases of omissions. “We have conducted survey in all 55,000 villages, shelter less, floating population, migrants and even beggars, a team of 150,000 government officials were deployed in the job however stray incidences of omissions also take place. The provisional results will be declared nationwide on March 28, while we will come up with district-wise figures by month-end. We will do a post-enumeration survey to include all those who were left out in the census,” census Director Sachin Sinha said. On outsourcing from the private sector, Sinha said, “No private companies or officials were engaged in the counting activities but we sought help from NGOs for those who are shelterless or labourers. HCL will do data scanning six month after the census.”
To help people in calling the census officials at home, the directorate had set up call centres and online data management system.
