Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 23: Amit Sharma, Director Census Operations (DCO) & Director Citizen Registration (DCR), Government of India (GoI), Ministry of Home Affairs for the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, termed upcoming Digital Census 2027 to be the real ‘game changer’ for the nation during ‘Arohana 2025’, a Government Summit organized by Deloitte in New Delhi.
Amit Sharma had been invited as a subject-specialist and a keynote speaker to lead a highly powered panel discussion around the theme of “India’s First Digital Census: Redefining Data for a New Bharat”. The other key speakers who spoke on the subject alongwith Amit Sharma were Neeta Verma, former IT Consultant, Election Commission of India and Sudeepta K, Chief Innovation Officer, Delloite South Asia, who also happened to moderate this talk.
Being the prime contributor in the talk, Sharma mentioned that GoI shall be conducting its first-ever paperless Digital Census since its inception in India, which shall be backed by innovation & technology.
He shared that maiden Digital Census shall help in fast processing of information, primarily based out of Artificial Intelligence tools and automatic updating of data through an application developed for both Android and iOS platforms, which shall help in faster and efficient policy making, corporate decisions, global economy boosting, etc. He also shared that the Data Centres of Office of Registrar General of India set-up in different geographical locations like Bangaluru, Lucknow and Delhi are fully geared-up for this humongous data processing, after successful culmination of both the rounds of HLO and PE.
Sharma also shared a unique novel initiative of upcoming Digital Census which is ‘Self Enumeration’ which simply means that public shall be given the facility of filling-up their information directly through the requisite application made for it, which shall be verified during the visit of enumerators and supervisors at their respective households.
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