24 MAY,2023.
24-05-2023
By Admin
Update NPR to enumerate self during next Census (PG 1,14)(GS 2)
24 MAY,2023.
If citizens want to exercise the right to fi•ll the Census form on their own rather than through government enumerators, they will have to fi•rst update their National Population Register (NPR) details online.
• The NPR, fi•rst put together in 2010 and updated in 2015, already has the details of 119 crore people. Census 2021, which has been postponed indefi•nitely, will be the fi•rst digital Census giving citizens an opportunity to “self-enumerate” as and when it is conducted.
• The government has not announced when the next census will be held, with a January 2 notifi•cation ruling out the exercise at least till September. The Census is conducted in two phases.