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Poverty, caste census will be almost paperless
Thursday May 19, 2011 07:38:49 PM,
IAN
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New Delhi:
The six-month long census for conducting a head count of poor
people, along with their caste and religious affiliations, will be
almost paperless as the enumerators will be armed with low-cost
tablet computers.
The cabinet Thursday approved the conduct of the survey, which
will begin in June and will be completed by December. It will be
jointly organised by the ministries of rural development and
housing and urban poverty alleviation, and the Registrar General
and the Census Commissioner of India.
"Paperwork (in the survey) will be almost eliminated," said Sanjay
Kumar Rakesh, joint secretary in the rural development ministry.
An unit of two people will go to each household across the
country, one to ask questions and the other to directly type in
the answers into a hand-held computer.
There will around 14 lakh government employees involved in the
information collection, which will includev six to seven lakh
enumerators and the rest as data entry operators.
The size of a small notebook, the personal computer has a
touchscreen, as well as a small keyboard. It has been manufactured
by Bharat Electronics Ltd, and has already been "pre-populated"
from the results of the National Population Register 2011.
"Once the information is entered, it will be read back for
confirmation. Lastly, the signature of the person will be taken,"
he said.
This information will be directly uploaded into the database at
four data centres.
"The time lag to convert the paper data into digital database has
been done away with. That's why we will be able to complete the
survey in six months. Also, the preliminary results will be
released early, say by March (2012)," said Rakesh.
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