Upcoming census to be digitised: Amit Shah
The upcoming census would be digitized and completed by 2024, said Home Minister Amit Shah in Assam.
Inaugurating the new office building of the Directorate of Census Operations at Amingaon in Kamrup district, the Home Minister said that with the electronic process, the census would be updated automatically after every birth and death in the country.
Shah said that while the digital census would have its unique challenges, there would be advantages as well as about 50 percent of the population would be able to feed their data themselves once the mobile application is downloaded on their phones.
Emphasising on its importance, the Union Minister said that the digital census would shape the ‘policies of the country of the next 25 years’. He said, “As soon as the outbreak of corona comes down, the process of digital census would start across the country. The digital census will be completed before 2024.”