1 The 2011
census is also carried out by the office of the Registrar General and Census
Commissioner of India, Delhi, an office in the Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India, under the 1948 Census of India Act. This one is the 15th
Indian National census and was conducted in two phases, namely, house listing
and population enumeration. The Census 2011 covered 640 districts, 5767
tehsils, 7742 towns and more than 6 lac villages. 2.7 million officials visited
households in 7,935 towns and 6,40,867 villages, classifying the population
according to gender, religion, education and occupation.
2 Approximately
twenty seven lakh (or 2.7 million) enumerators and 2 lakh supervisors were
engaged for this Census 2011 operation and information was collected on 35
items and 15 millions copies of Census Schedules were canvassed and filled in
and No. of Languages in which Schedules were canvassed were 16. No. of Schedules Printed were 340 million, No.
of Training Manuals Printed were 5.4 million, Paper Utilized: 12,000 MTs and Material
Moved: 10,500 MTs.
The cost incurred was about
2,2000 million (US $415.8 million) – this comes to Rs. 18.33 which is less than
$ 0.5 per person, which is well below the estimated world average of $4.6 per
person.
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