Caste Census should go beyond numbers: Justice Sadashiva

Even as the Caste Census has about to begun, Justice A J Sadashiva, who is heading a commission looking into imbalance in distribution of reservation benefits, asked the officials not to restrict the exercise to generation of data alone. The survey should help map the social, economic and cultural status of the communities, which, he said, should help the government to assist them. This should not be a mere exercise to get the data but it should also map the living conditions of the targeted communities, he told them reviewing the survey work in Mysore, Chamarajnagar, Mandya and Hassan districts. Regional commissioner M V Jayanthi was present.

Pointing out the task, Sadashiva referred to the proposed caste census by the the Centre and said: "What the commission is doing is important in that context. It should set a vast guideline for the national caste census." There is not much information about some communities. This needs to be documented and the survey should not be a mere statistical affair, he noted. Pointing at the ZP polls in December, some officials sought extension of the survey works ordained to be completed by November-end, Sadashiva said he cannot outrightly say that it will be granted. Officials said the number of enumerators is less in some areas and the commission suggested to use the local resources to make it up. The DCs, ACs and tahasldars from all four districts attended the meeting.

Second phase of census to begin in February

Agartala: The training of enumerators and supervisors for the second phase of the 2011 Census -- to be held in February next year -- shall commence next month, an official said here.
'The second phase of census 2011, called the Population Enumeration phase will be conducted simultaneously all over India from Feb 9 to 28 next year,' senior census operation official Dilip Acherjee told.
The 45-day first phase of the census, which included house listing and door-to-door headcount for the National Population Register (NPR), ended in August.
Acherjee said: 'After the field work is over, the forms have been transported to data processing centres located at 15 cities across the country. The six-phase data processing and scanning are now underway in these 15 centres and the process would be completed by November.'
Acharjee said that after the actual population enumeration (Feb 9-28, 2011), a five-day revision round would be held between March 1-5, 2011 followed by the declaration of the preliminary census result March 25, 2011.
The official said that after the Feb 9 to 28 census, the caste-based census works would be carried out by the government between June and September 2011.
The US Census Bureau and four United Nations (UN) agencies recently separately held 'sharing of experience sessions' with the Indian census officials in New Delhi.

3 साल में चीन को पछाड़ देगा भारत!

भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था के लिए अच्छी खबर है। उम्मीद की जा रही है कि आने वाले तीन सालों में ग्रोथ रेट के मामले में भारत, चीन से आगे निकल जाएगा। इसकी सबसे बड़ी वजह है भारत में युवाओं और कामकाजी जनसंख्या में तेजी से हो रही बढ़ोतरी। आंकड़ों के मुताबिक 2013 तक जहां चीन में वर्किंग पॉप्युलेशन यानी कामकाजी संख्या में 2.30 करोड़ का इजाफा होगा। वहीं भारत में यह संख्या 3.60 करोड़ से ज्यादा होगी।

साफ है कि वर्किंग पॉप्युलेशन में बढ़ोतरी के साथ ही भारत की आर्थिक विकास दर भी तेजी से बढ़ेगी। फिलहाल भारत में ग्रोथ रेट के 8 से 8.50 फीसदी के बीच रहने की उम्मीद जताई जा रही है। इसकी तुलना में चीन की ग्रोथ रेट 9.50 से 10.30 फीसदी तक जा सकती है। लेकिन जानकारों का मानना है कि 2013 जीडीपी ग्रोथ रेट के मामले में भारत 10 फीसदी के स्तर को पार कर सकता है। वहीं कामकाजी जनसंख्या में गिरावट की वजह से चीन का ग्रोथ रेट 9 फीसदी से नीचे भी आ सकता है।

Census 2011 to collect data on eunuchs

In a first in census history, the government has decided to collect data on eunuchs in the 2011 census beginning February 9.

Senior officer from the census office in Mumbai confirmed that apart from male and female, this time around the census will also have a column to register details of eunuchs.

Phase-II of the census will be conducted by the central government from February 9 until February 28, said the officer. He added that a revision round would also be conducted between March 1 and March 5.

After population census, a provisional population will be announced by the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner of India.

During enumeration, the process to create a database on demography, economic activity, literacy and education, housing and household amenities, urbanisation, fertility and mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, language, religion and migration, would involve visiting each and every household in the district.

In fact, census 2011 was a milestone as the government had also intended to create the National Population Register (NPR), a comprehensive identity database that would facilitate the creation of a biometrics-based identity system in the country, allowing identity cards for all citizens, he said.

Caste census in June-September next year

The caste-based census would be carried out by the government between June and September next year, Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced on Friday.
“It was decided that Caste will be canvassed through a separate house-to-house survey between June and September, 2011,” Mr. Chidambaram told reporters at his monthly press meet here.
Bowing to demands by several political parties, government had last month decided to carry out a separate caste census next year.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had told the Lok Sabha recently that all political parties had supported the idea of including caste in census and there was no need for any “apprehensions” over the issue.
His statement had come after leaders of BJP, JD(U), BSP and Samajwadi Party wanted to know as to what happened to the government’s promise to carry out a caste census.