New Delhi: the perspectives of resumption of Census 2021 The exercise, suspended from the outbreak of the Covid Pandemia in 2020, seems bleak in next year, going through the scarce RS 574 million rupees Assignment towards this head in the 2025-26 budget.
The disbursement for “Census and Statistics Survey/General Registry of India” this year is only half of the assignment of RS 1,309.5 million rupees made in the last budget, and is almost at the same level as the estimate reviewed by 2024 -25.
A meeting of the Cabinet of the Union on December 24, 2019 had approved the proposal to carry out the 2021 census at a cost of 8,754.23 million rupees and update the National Population Registry (NPR) at RS 3,941.35 million rupees.
Although Census 2021, which will begin in April 2020, was postponed due to the Covid outbreak, there is still no definitive word of the government even when the decenal exercise will be addressed. Having the census is crucial for the following Delimitation exercise and implementation of the quota of one third for the women of the legislatures of the country.
The sources indicate that the demand of several sectors for a caste census – Possibly by including caste as one of the fields in the census questionnaire, it may be braking the exercise of the decenal census. It is possible that a call should be taken on whether the caste must be registered in the next census and the methodology that will be adopted to do this accurately. The methodology may require some discussions with the parties that demand the census census, since the government itself has not yet concentrated on an infallible method to capture ‘caste’ correctly.
In general, the budget of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in RS 2.33 Lakh million rupees, saw a 6.2% increase on the one announced on February 1, 2024 and 8.7% more than the estimate reviewed by 2024-25. The police obtained the participation of the lion in RS 1.6 Lakh million rupees, compared to a little less RS 1.5 Lakh Crore in 2024-25. The focus of MhaThe 2025-26 budget of 2025-26 is also to create the additional infrastructure for the 100% implementation of the new criminal laws. Therefore, the disbursement for the modernization of the police forces, including the network and criminal systems of crime and crime (CCTNS), has increased to RS 4,069 million rupees of RS 2623 million RS 300.2 million rupees compared to RS 123.1 assigned in 2024-25.
