New Delhi: Census 2021 Exercising, when done, will calculate only SCS and STS notified through constitutional orders in 1950, the government found parliament on Tuesday.
Union Minister Nityanand Rai said this in a written reply to the question at Lok Sabha on whether the government plans to conduct a caste census along with a ten-year census of 2021.
“In census, caste and tribes specifically notified according to the Castes (SC) schedule and the scheduled tribe (STS) In accordance with the constitution (schedule) of the command in 1950 and the constitution (scheduled tribes), 1950, as amended from time to time, mentioned, “he said.
RAI said Socio-Economy and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 was conducted by the Rural Development Department (Mord) and the Ministry of Housing and the Alleviating of Urban Poverty (Hupa) in respectively in rural and urban areas and SECC data 2011, excluding caste data, has been completed and published by Mord and Hupa.
“The Central Registrar Office, India has provided logistics and technical support in conducting SCC-2011.
Raw caste data has been given to the Ministry of Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) for the classification and data categorization.
As informed by Mosje, there are no proposals to release caste data on This stage, “he said.
The minister also said the census schedule was designed in consultation with various stakeholders, including the state government.
The intention of the center to conduct a 2021 census was notified in Indian news on March 28, 2019 but because of the outbreak of Covid-19, the census activity was postponed, he told parliament.
Rai said during census training, data was collected on demographics and various socio-economic parameters such as education, SC and ST, religion, language, marriage, fertility, disability, employment and individual migration.
He said the upcoming census would be the first digital census and there were provisions for self-enumeration.
Cellular applications for data collection and census portal for management and monitoring of various census related activities have been developed, he added.
Individual data is not used for other database preparation, including the national list of residents (NRC), and only aggregate census data at various administrative levels released, said minister.