(a) the details of agencies to whom the work of caste based
census have been assigned, State-wise; and
(b) the present status of the caste based census?
(a) the details of agencies to whom the work of caste based
census have been assigned, State-wise; and
(b) the present status of the caste based census?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI JITENDRA SINGH)
(a): The field work for the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) is
being conducted by the respective State/UT Governments. The financial
and technical support for this exercise is being provided by the Government
of India. The Nodal Ministries in the Government of India are the Ministry
of Rural Development and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
Technical support is being provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs (Office of
Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India).
The field data-collection in each Enumeration Block is being conducted by
a team of 2 persons, an enumerator who is appointed by the State/UT Government
and a Data Entry Operator who is handling the Tablet PC for data entry operation.
The tasks related to hardware and software development and field data entry
operations has been entrusted to a consortium of three Central Public Sector
Undertakings, namely, the Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), the Electronics
Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and the Indian Telephone Industries (ITI)
Limited. The State-wise allotment is given in the Annexure.
(b): The field-work of the SECC has already commenced in 31 States/UTs. So
far, enumerator’s data collection has been completed in more than 8 lakh
25 thousand census enumeration blocks of these States/UTs. The dates of field-
work for the remaining four States, namely, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu are being finalized by the nodal Ministry in the Central Govt., namely,
the MoRD in consultation with the respective State Governments.