Second phase of Census 2011 begins
09 Feb 2011
The Census Commission today kicked off the second phase of Census 2011, under which the population in the entire country will be enumerated at one go, began this morning with the collection of data relating to the first citizen, the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
A team led by the census commissioner, C Chandramouli, collected data relating to the President and her household today setting in motion the massive exercise.
The Census Commission had successfully completed the first phase of the 15th Census - the houselisting and housing census - between April and September 2010.
The second phase, called the population enumeration, is being conducted simultaneously all over the country from 9 to 28 February 2011.
Census 2011 will also see the preparation of a National Population Register (NPR).
The census has been the main source of information in the country on demography, economic activity, literacy and education, housing and household amenities, urbanisation, fertility and mortality, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, language, religion, migration, disability and many other socio-cultural data since 1872.