Bengaluru’s first digital population clock to be inaugurated on November 8
The HinduBengaluru City’s first digital population clock, which will display real-time estimates of the population of Karnataka and the country, will be inaugurated at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in the city on Friday. The population clock, a project jointly taken up by ISEC and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, would update the estimated Karnataka’s population every one minute 10 seconds and the country’s population every two seconds. Mr. Lakshmana, who is the nodal officer for setting up the Census Data Research Workstation and Digital Population Clock at ISEC, said the workstation would provide researchers and students access to comprehensive census data, enabling in-depth analysis and research on demographic trends and their implications. The clock and Census Data Research Workstation will be inaugurated by Kal Singh, ISS, Director General, MoHFW.