Tag: Census 2021

Bhubaneswar: With preparations underway for the 2021 Census across the country, Odisha today kick-started pretesting from – Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation area, Pattamundai Tehsil in Kendrapara district and Puintala block in Bolangir district. Enumerators went door-to-door and collected data and in the first phase of data collection, house listing operations have begun. Prabhakar Barad, joint director […]

Bhubaneswar: Is BJD strategising to launch its 2024 political campaign right from now? Clues are galore over BJD’s latest political chess play. Significantly, the demand of caste-based enumeration is related to Census that will take place in 2021, and its findings will be out in year 2022; whereas elections are scheduled in April-May 2024. Moreover, […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday questioned Odisha government’s intent on their request to include Socio-Economic Caste enumeration in the General census 2021. He alleged that despite possessing data from Mandal Commission in 1990 and SECC in 2011, Odisha government haven’t implemented reservation for people who belong to (Socially and Economically Backward Classes) and […]

Bhubaneswar: No special column for OBC (Other Backward Class) category will be marked in the upcoming census 2020-21 as requested by the ruling Biju Janata Dal in Odisha, informed Union MoS Nityananda Rai of MHA in Rajya Sabha yesterday. Responding to a question by V Vijayasai Reddy on the Registrar General’s decision to exclude data […]

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of Coronavirus outbreak in India, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote to PM Narendra Modi requesting the Central government to review the decision for Census 2021 initiative & updation of National Population Register throughout the country. Also Read: Centre Rejects Odisha’s Request Of Caste-Based Census! In the letter, CM Naveen Patnaik […]

New Delhi: The Union government on Wednesday announced to postpone the first phase of Census 2021 and the National Population Register (NPR) exercise owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country. The exercise slated to begin on April 1 this year has been “postponed until further orders”, the office of the Registrar General and […]