Field trials for Census-NPR to begin soon
The HinduThe Registrar-General of India is preparing to conduct field trials of the first phase of the Census and the National Population Register using a mobile application in all the States and Union Territories, a senior government official told The Hindu. The first phase involving house listing and housing census, along with updating the NPR, was scheduled from April 1 last year, but was postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic. On February 9, Vivek Joshi, RGI and Census Commissioner of India, chaired a virtual meeting of the Directors of Census Operations of all States to review the preparations for the coming Census where the field trials using the app were discussed. The Director of Census Operations of one of the States who attended the meeting told The Hindu, “The app has been improvised after the 2019 trials, and the field trials will be held afresh.
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