The enumeration process for the 15th Indian National Census 2011 will start on February 9 and a number of new features have been added to it, said Ranjit Singh Deol, the director of census operations.
M S Chaudhari, secretary of the General Administration Department (GAD), Mumbai, today unveiled the mascot of the enumerators for the Indian Census 2011. Counting a billion-plus population was being conducted in two phases.
House listing and collection of data for the National Population Register (NPR) was done in the first phase (April-September 2010). The enumeration phase will have 2.7 million enumerators and supervisors taking a house-to-house count.
Deol said the exercise entails an expenditure of Rs 2,200 crore and special training was imparted to the enumerators with special emphasis on disability and gender. Gender will include transgenders in a new parameter called ‘others’ while disability categorisation has been increased from five to eight.
Twenty-nine questions have been devised on demographic, marital status, cultural, literacy, economic, migration, travel to place of work and fertility parameters for the enumeration phase.
