Mumbai gets set for second phase of Census 2011
09 Feb 2011
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation announced mobilisation of around 16,000 BMC staff as enumerators for the project. Of the 16,000 BMC enumerators, 11,000 are school teachers.
While this falls short of the total requirement of 25,500, the shortfall would be made good by staff from aided and unaided schools, central government, state government and home guards.
Mmunicipal commissioner Subodh Kumar has instructed all teachers involved in census duty to be relieved from their regular teaching assignment from 9 February to 5 March with review rounds to be conducted from 1 March to 5 March. According to sources, the census form has 29 different questions pertaining to personal data, literacy, educational level, employment level, employment, migration and fertility.
The BMC has appointed ward census officers for each of its 24 wards to supervise the operations as also attend to calls on houselines.
These would be functional from 21 February onwards. Citizens who have not been counted under the second phase can call and inform the authorities on these lines. As in the first phase, enumerators will slide chits or notes under the doors where they find these locked.
On 28 February, midnight, special ward level teams would visit areas that have homeless people in their ward.
According to additional municipal commissioner, Manish Mhaiskar all homeless people would be counted on that night itself.
On Monday the director of census operations had announced the special features of the census. Mhaiskar said, ''Amongst the many new features, this census will have a number of sub-categories under the handicapped category,'' said Mhaiksar.
Mhaiskar added that along with the second phase, the central government's unique id (UID) project would also get under way soon. Under the project 155 Adhar centers would be made functional across the city with as many as 35,000-40000 registrations taking place on a daily basis in every center. These centers will mostly be set up on municipal premises