Delay in 2021 Census by at least 3 years

Subject: Polity

Section: Msc

Context:

The country’s Census enumeration that was scheduled to take place in 2021 has been pushed to 2024-25 until further orders.

More about Census 2021

It will be the 15th Indian Census.
It will be conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration.
It will also provide a facility to the public for self-enumeration.
For the first time, the Census 2021 will use the Mobile App for data collection.
Apart from allowing the provision of online self-enumeration, home visit by the enumerators for collecting census data will continue as in the past.

More facts about Census 2021:

The Census is the enumeration of the population of the country and it is being conducted at an interval of 10 years.
It was first started under British Viceroy Lord Mayo in 1872.
The first synchronous census in India was held in 1881.
The Census Act of 1948 ensures confidentiality for census data.The information recorded for the population census is so private that even the legal system cannot access it.
The responsibility of conducting the decennial Census rests with the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
In the Census, data is collected on demographic and various socio-economic parameters like education, SC/ST, religion, language, marriage, fertility, disability, occupation and migration of the individuals.

2011 marks the first time biometric information was collected.