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❤️write a short note on cencus servay of india ?❤️​

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Answered by Anonymous
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census survey of India

India is the country where different rilligon cast language etc is present .every 4 or 5 year government of India do survey of the people of their cast of religion or of wealth .even different ministry is made for different cast and religion .in India it's take long years for a single survey government invest lots money towards them after completing the number become changed as our population is also the second largest population .so the purpose of survey to ensure development of people is become changed and its change to become a quotes for leader .

Answered by aryan9467
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  • This is the 15th Census of India and the 7th Census of Independent India-2011 was started on 1st April 2010 with President Smt.Pratibha Patil being the first citizen to be accounted.

  • The cost of the Census was estimated to be 22 Billion Rupees.

  • The motto of Census 2011 – ‘Our Census, Our future’.

  • The census of India is organised every 10 years, hence called decennial. It is the primary source of information about the demographic characteristics of the population of India.

  • The 2011 census was the largest census conducted in the history of mankind.

  • The first Census in India took place in 1872. But first regular census was initiated in 1881 by Lord Rippon.

  • This 2011 Census commenced on 1 May 2010 with a mandate to create a National Population Register including photographs and fingerprints of every resident of the country(not citizens but residents).

  • As mentioned earlier, the census is conducted by the office of the Registrar General and the Census Commissioner of India,which is an office in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, under the provisions of Census of India Act, 1948.

  • The Census of India Act, 1948 gives Central Government powers to notify a date for Census; power to ask for the services of any citizen for census work. The law also makes it compulsory for every citizen of country to answer the questions as part of census, truthfully and honestly.

  • The Act has provisions for penalties to punish false answers or not giving answers to the census questionnaire.

  • One important provision of this act is the guarantee for the maintenance of secrecy of the information collected during the census.

  • It is to be noted that the census records are not to be inspected and also they are not admissible as evidence.highlights of population in census 2011

  • The population of India has seen an increase of more than 181 million during the last decade 2001-2011.

  • The percentage growth during 2001-2011 is 17.64%. The male population rose by 17.19% and females by 18.12%.

Note:

  • The 2001-2011 decade is the first decade (the exception of 1911-1921 remains, they being war years) which has added lesser population in comparison to the previous decade population addition.

  • Uttar Pradesh with a population of 199.5 million is the most populous State in India, followed by Maharashtra with 112 million people.

  • The Child Population in the age group of 0-6 years is 13.1% of the total population, while the corresponding figure for 2001 census was 15.9%. There was a decline of 2.8 percent points over a decade.

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