KOHIMA, Feb 21 � For the first time, non-government organisations (NGOs) would be involved in carrying out the 2011 Census operation, officials said here.
Besides government officials, people from the NGOs had been selected as trainers in each State to provide training to other officials to conduct the enumeration of data, senior Census official Dilip Acherjee told reporters here yesterday.
For the first time, UNICEF and UNDP would also help to create master trainers, who would educate the enumerators and supervisors to conduct the massive Census operation, he said.
In the first phase, data collection for creation of the computerised National Register of Citizens� (NRC) along with house listing and housing Census would be taken up on April 26 next, he said.
The 45-day work would be completed on June 9 tentatively though the dates are likely to vary from State to State.
Ahead of the first phase of the Census, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram would hold a meeting with district magistrates and Census officials across the country on March 4 in New Delhi to finalise the road map on creation of NRC.
However, the coastal States of the country had already
begun the work on NRC, the official said.
These very critical and basic statistics of the NRC would form the database for every Indian and these would be maintained by the Unique Identification of India (UID), a proposed system to be used as a means of identifying residents in the country, Acherjee said.
The actual population enumeration will be undertaken simultaneously across the country from February 9 to 28, 2011 followed by a five-day revision round from March 1 to 5, 2011. The preliminary Census result will be declared on March 25, 2011.
The 2011 Census will be the 15th Census in the country since 1872. � PTI
