Articles for Census Conducted

Congress to give 42% tickets to BCs in local body polls
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Congress to give 42% tickets to BCs in local body polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday announced that the Congress would give 42 per cent seats for Backward Classes candidates in the upcoming local body elections, and challenged the BRS and the BJP to follow the suit if they were genuinely committed to the upliftment of the community. Calling the day a "red-letter day" in history, Revanth Reddy declared …

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When Tamil Nadu conducted a ‘caste census’ like Bihar
1 year, 5 months ago

When Tamil Nadu conducted a ‘caste census’ like Bihar

The Hindu  

The recent release of the findings of the Bihar Caste-based Survey-2022 has led to clamour among several political parties in Tamil Nadu for a similar exercise. However, it is interesting to note that the southern State was perhaps the only one in the 1980s to undertake such an exercise, through what was then called the Tamil Nadu Second Backward Classes …

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Reliable data, good policy
3 years, 4 months ago

Reliable data, good policy

The Hindu  

When evidence-based policymaking becomes the cornerstone of good governance, it is difficult to overstate the importance of reliable and timely public data. Among the emerging economies, India is credited to have a relatively robust public data system generated through its decennial Census and yearly sample surveys on specific themes. The MHCE provides the data base to compute the weightage assigned …

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34 queries in Census 2020 form
5 years ago

34 queries in Census 2020 form

The Hindu  

The Registrar General of India has asked all States to “give highest importance, attention and time” to the Census and National Population Register work as “the foundations of the statistics of the country” depend on them. In a 14-page letter, dated January 29 and addressed to all the Directors of Census Operations in the States, Registrar General and Census Commissioner …

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House listing operations for Census 2011 progressing well
14 years, 11 months ago

House listing operations for Census 2011 progressing well

The Hindu  

From hilly terrain to forested areas and from slum clusters to plush apartments in metropolitan cities, Census officials are out in the field across the country gathering information for the first phase of “House listing and Housing Census,'' a key component of “Census 2011,'' that began on April 1. The entire population of the country, around 1.2 billion, will be …

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