The BMC has announced that the first phase of the national census will extend and continue for another four weeks. It was due to end on the Wednesday.BMC are done with most of the works, the extension will help them work on the remaining houses that is just in the tune of 10%.They could not do the counting as the houses were locked during the designated period.
The first phase of work started from 1st of May and ended on 15th of June. It included house-listing, and data entry of the national population register. BMC found 6% of the houses which were locked permanently.
Manisha Mhaiskar, the additional municipal commissioner said that the major bulk of the census work had been done barring 10%of the hoses which were found closed due to the vacation. But as most of the schools reopened on Monday families are expected to return from vacation within a couple of week .The centre had given permission to extend the period of work by another 4 weeks. They have also started their help lines simultaneously so that if required people can call up the corporation’s enumerators for enrolling their names had they been left out during the time of counting.
Mhaiskar added that the enumerators will try to contact the citizens who haven’t been enumerated.
The Bombay Municipal Corporation had also decided to reduce its scale of operation. It will reduce the number of enumerators for the remaining 10% needed to be enumerated. Mahiskar stated that they will employ health department officials to enumerate for the next four weeks.
This is the 15th census being carried out in India and the seventh in independent India. The census will be carried out in phases.
