Shri Vivek Joshi, IAS (HY:89) is appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner.
Shri Vivek Joshi, IAS (HY:89) is appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner.
Vivek Joshi appointed as the new registrar general and census commissioner of India.
In a letter to the states, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Vivek Joshi has extended the date for the states to make changes to administrative boundaries until 31 December.
The responsibility of conducting the decennial Census rests with the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India under Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India .
Pre-Independence Period: The first known census for citizens was done in 1830 by Henry Walter in Daac (also known as Dhaka). Therefore, Henry Walter is known as the ather of Indian Census.
While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under British Viceroy Lord Mayo , the first complete census was taken in 1881. Post 1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
The next census will take place in May 2021 . Learn more about how and why it is conducted, and how it was adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. census counts every resident in the United States. It is mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution and takes place every 10 years .
The 2020 Census is the once-every -ten-year survey that goes to every household in the country. It has only 10 questions and takes only 10 minutes to fill out. The results are used to determine how many seats in Congress each state gets, and it is mandated by our Constitution.
That is why the Slogan is “ Our Census – Our Future” .
The current population of China is 1,446,190,848 as of Monday, September 27, 2021, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
The current population of India is 1,396,790,804 as of Tuesday, September 28, 2021, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
The first census in 1790 was managed under the direction of Thomas Jefferson , the Secretary of State. Marshals took the census in the original 13 states plus the districts of Kentucky, Maine, and Vermont, and the Southwest Territory (Tennessee).
| 15th Census of India | Country India | Results | Total population 1,210,193,422 ( 17.70%) | Most populous state Uttar Pradesh (199,812,341) |
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The last census took place in 2011 . Many people and organisations used information from the 2011 Census in a variety of ways.
