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INDIA
The gigantic 2011 Census exercise
will begin on April 1 with
President Pratibha Patil being the
first person to share details, including information on the number of
mobile phones, computers and internet connections in the President
House. The officials will,
will, thereafter, record the status of an estimated
1.2 billion people across the country in the next one year.

It will be for the first time when the Census officials record details of
new age amenities -- mobile phones, computers and internet
connections -- available to the people in their households.

Besides data on demography and economic activity, the Census will

also provide figures on literacy, fertility, mortality, language, religion,
migration, and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The entire exercise -- which will begin with houselisting and housing
census on April 1 in New Delhi, West Bengal, Assam, Andaman &
Nicobar Islands, Goa and Meghalaya -- will be done under statutory
provisions of the Census Act, 1948.
Under the Act, if anyone fails to cooperate in the Census exercise, he or
she "can invite adverse consequences including fines and
punishments".
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Registrar general and census commissioner C Chandramouli said: "The
information collected about individuals will be kept absolutely
confidential. In fact, this information is not accessible even to courts of
law. This provision is there to encourage people to give correct
information in the Census without any fear."

Announcing the Census schedule, Union home secretary G K Pillai said

the government has also decided to prepare a National Population
Register (NPR) -- an identity database of all usual residents in the
country -- which will pave the way for providing a Unique Identity
Number to individuals above the age of 15 years and eventually making
a National Register of Citizens.

Besides carrying information relating to all residents, the NPR data will
also contain the photograph and 10 fingers biometry of persons above
15 years. Identity cards will be provided to citizens above the age of 18
years in due course after weeding out all illegal immigrants who might
have got entry into the NPR by any means.

Pillai made it clear that no information will be collected on castes as no

caste-based census has ever been conducted in independent India.
"We have never conducted a census on castes and it will be difficult to
verify the caste of any individual. Therefore, we may have a distorted
version of caste census... Let me at least for once be blunt that, I think,
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Asked how the census exercise will be conducted in the Maoist-affected

areas, Pillai said they were not expecting trouble and everyone would
be included in the database. "We will include all of them. Maoists will
not be arrested if they come for Census," he said.

Schedule

Andaman and Nicobar Is. schedule starts from 1st April to 15th
May 10

Andhra Pradesh schedule starts from 26th April to 10th June 10

Arunachal Pradesh schedule starts from 15th April to 31st May 10

Assam schedule starts from 1st April to 15th May 10

Bihar schedule starts from 1st April to 15th May 10

Chandigarh schedule starts from 15th April to 31st May, 10

Chhatisgarh schedule starts from 1st May to 15th June 10 Page | 4

Dadra and Nagar Haveli schedule starts from 21st April to 4th
June, 10

Daman and Diu schedule starts from 21st April to 4th June, 10

Delhi schedule starts from 1st May to 15th June 10

Goa schedule starts from 1st April to 15th May 10

Gujarat schedule starts from 21st April to 4th June 10

Haryana schedule starts from 1st May to 15th June 10

Himachal Pradesh schedule starts from 7th April to 22nd May 10

Jammu and Kashmir schedule starts from 15th May to 30th June
10

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Jharkhand schedule starts from 1st April to 15th May 10

Karnataka schedule starts from 15th Apr to 1st Jun 10

Kerala schedule starts from 7th April to 22nd May 10

Lakshadweep schedule starts from 7th April to 22nd May 10

Madhya Pradesh schedule starts from 7th May to 22th June 10

Maharashtra schedule starts from 1st May to 15th June 10

Manipur schedule starts from 15th May to 30th June 10

Meghalaya schedule starts from 1st April to 15th May 10

Mizoram schedule starts from 15th May to 30th June 10

Nagaland schedule starts from 1st June to 15th July 10

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Orissa schedule starts from 7th April to 22nd May 10

Pondicherry schedule starts from 1st June to 15th July 10

Punjab schedule starts from 1st May to 15th June 10

Rajasthan schedule starts from 15th May to 30th June 10

Sikkim schedule starts from 7th April to 22nd May 10

Tamil Nadu schedule starts from 1st June to 15th July 10

Tripura schedule starts from 26th April to 10th June 10

Uttar Pradesh schedule schedule starts from 16th May to 30th Jun
10
Uttaranchal schedule starts from 1st May to 15th June 10

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