{"id":4525,"date":"2023-01-06T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:23:20","slug":"what-is-population-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-population-census\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Population Census?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As per norms, a census can be conducted only three months after the freezing of boundary limits of administrative units such as districts, sub-districts, tehsils, talukas and police stations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The finalisation of boundaries of administrative units entails covering all jurisdictional changes between two consecutive censuses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Census?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a process of collecting, compiling, analyzing, evaluating, publishing and disseminating statistical data regarding the population.<\/li>\n<li>It is being conducted at an interval of 10 years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In India, the census was first started under British <strong>Viceroy Lord Mayo<\/strong> in 1872 and the first synchronous census in India was held in 1881.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What are the key facts about India\u2019s census?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> The decennial Census is conducted by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner<strong>, Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Census is conducted under the provisions of the Census Act, of 1948.<\/li>\n<li>The population census is a <strong>Union subject<\/strong> under Article 246 of the Indian Constitution.<\/li>\n<li>It is listed as serial number 69 of the seventh schedule of the constitution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the significance socio-economic caste census?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It generates information on a large number of social and economic indicators relating to households across the country which was conducted in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/decennial-census-exercise-postponed-till-september-2023\/article66343152.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Decennial census put off till September to freeze boundaries<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population Census is a process of collecting, analyzing and disseminating statistical data regarding population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}